Word: aprons
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Caroline had just landed on the rain-soaked runway at Palm Beach airport and was taxiing up to the apron when the message came in over the pilot's radio that an emergency telephone call was waiting. Hostess Janet Desrosiers rushed back with the message to Jack Kennedy's rear compartment. As he emerged from the plane, Kennedy was told that his wife was in the hospital. He paused only long enough to shout back at the plane, "We'll be going right back," then hurried grimly to the phone behind a flying wedge of Secret Service...
John Chesher, 39, who got paid only for time he was in the air, elected to fly. So thick was the fog that he first scouted the concrete apron on foot to spot parked planes so he would not run into them as he taxied out. Then he got an airport mechanic to walk ahead of him and through the mist point the way as he inched the plane toward takeoff...
Although "Troilus and Cressida" presents formidable acting problems, it provokes an interesting use of the stage. Stephen Aaron, director, has employed the apron stage with the audience ranged around three sides; and he has designed a performance that is becoming to the play and platform. Todd Lee's setting consists of levels, shapes and areas that culminate in a round peak against a glowing cyclorama; and Walter Benson's lighting plot is superb, indicating the range and richness of the electrical equipment. No doubt it will be years before the staff learns to use the full potential...
...manifesto, the suffrage struggle raged on for half a century under the leadership of such doughty heroines as Amelia Bloomer and Susan B. Anthony. In 1869 the Wyoming territorial legislature passed a female suffrage bill, and in 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie put on a clean apron and became the first American woman ever to cast a vote in an election. Twenty years later, Congress threatened to block Wyoming's admission as a state because of the local suffrage law, and Wyoming's worried territorial delegate wired home for official guidance. Back came the gallant telegraphed answer...
...Dulles International Airport, due to open near Washington, D.C. in 1961, is radically different in concept. Unlike most airports, it will have no passageways reaching out onto the apron to detract from its lofty, templelike terminal designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. Instead of jets coming up to terminal fingers, passengers will simply walk into giant "mobile lounges" that will move them out to the jets...