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...Montreal Olympics with their reigning deity. That huge mantle fell upon the tiny shoulders of Nadia Comaneci, who electrified the crowds and bollixed the computers by compiling the first perfect gymnastic scores. Performing her bold and difficult routines with consummate control, Comaneci (pronounced Com-a-netch) tallied three 10s in the team competition, two in the individual all-around contest, and two in the individual-apparatus competition-showings good enough to win her three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Whether doing backflips on the beam or rocketing herself around the uneven bars, the deceptively frail-looking sprite...
...deep slump that there is no market for surplus planes. Worldwide deliveries of U.S.-made jetliners tumbled from 332 planes in 1974 to 282 last year. Jumbo jets, the big-ticket items, led the dive. McDonnell Douglas (revenues through September 1975: $2.6 billion) sold 14 of its DC-10s in 1974, but got orders for only eleven in the first nine months of 1975. Boeing ($2.7 billion through September) watched its sales of 747s drop from 29 in 1974 to 20 last year. And Lockheed ($2.5 billion through September), which won 28 orders for the TriStar...
That is startling indeed. Until the crash, both the DC-10 and its maker had enjoyed high reputations. The DC-10 went into service in August 1971, and had a safety record above average for a relatively new aircraft. Thirty-one airlines now fly a total of 128 DC-10s; passengers praise the craft as spacious and quiet, and the FAA says that they are all safe (the agency finally issued its airworthiness directive about cargo doors on March 6, three days after the Turkish Airlines disaster...
...takeoffs originally scheduled for 1974 and reduce flights by 285 million miles. About 275 planes, more than 10% of the airlines' fleets, will be grounded; Continental Air Lines figures to save 19 million gal. of jet fuel a year just by replacing 747s with DC-10s on its Honolulu runs. Many of the cabin luxuries and ticketing options that passengers have taken for granted will disappear. First class may give way to all-economy seating, and tourist accommodations may become more crowded as cabins are fit ted with extra seats. Last-minute reservations and changes of flight plans will...
American's basic woes go back to 1967 when management, expecting a surge in traffic, decided to load up on jumbo jets. In all, American ordered 16 Boeing 747s and 25 McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. Even when the 1970 recession left lines with empty seats, American continued to take delivery of new aircraft in hopes that a merger with Western Airlines would enable it to fill them up on popular runs to the Southwest sun country and elsewhere. Despite fervid lobbying, the Civil Aeronautics Board last July rejected the merger, and as Spater concedes...