Word: stapleton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well aware of the need to watch its controllers for any sign of weariness and to keep air traffic limited to their ability to handle it. Reports Temple Johnson Jr., tower chief at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, who checks each controller twice a day: "I look them in the eye and ask, 'How are you doing? Tell me straight.' " As of last week Johnson was pleased at the answers he was getting. So far, they were doing well. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Dean Brelis/New York, with other bureaus
Shortly before sunrise one day last week, a military convoy stretching a full mile snaked its way 3½ miles from Rocky Mountain Arsenal to a runway at Stapleton International airport in Denver. The four U.S. Army trucks eased up beside a pair of C-141 Starlifter transport planes. Aboard the trucks, stacked on metal pallets and tightly harnessed with black nylon webbing, was the deadly cargo. "We've taken every conceivable safety precaution," Brigadier General Walter Kastenmayer told reporters. "I have no concern that we can't do this safely...
...odorless liquid called GB. A good whiff or a splash on the skin can kill a human being within minutes. Dubbed "Weteyes" because tears are one of the first symptoms of exposure, the bombs were built for the U.S. Navy in 1969 and stored just three miles north of Stapleton. But the Weteyes were too close for comfort for many Denverites, and lobbying was intense to move the bombs to Tooele, storage ground for the largest cache of chemical munitions in the free world...
Fresh-cut flower markets also depend on air transport of their products. In Colorado, where about 20% of the nation's carnations are grown, wholesalers initially feared that flight cancellations would leave tens of thousands of blooms wilting alongside the runway at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. In New York's bustling flower market, blooms arrive daily from as far away as California, South America and The Netherlands, and delivery delays can mean big losses. In fact, shipments arrived as expected in most markets around the country...
...destructiveness. And somehow, when his words become deeds, the intrusion of maniac disorderliness on the slickly complacent world of these show people is extraordinarily harrowing. Michael Biehn, as the madman, combines a sort of mad innocence with creepiness very effectively, and there are good bits, as well, by Maureen Stapleton as Bacall's patiently put-upon secretary and by Hector Elizondo as a smart but slightly star-struck...