Word: 8s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-man executive team from Frontier to help run National, set out to shine up the line's somewhat tarnished reputation. National executives, who had grown gun-shy under terrible-tempered Ted Baker, found themselves with freely delegated authority. Maytag modernized National's fleet (now nine DC-8s, 17 Electras), eased the debt burden by arranging new financing, and prettied up the stewardesses with fuselage-hugging black sheaths by Oleg Cassini...
...crumpets, the English! Sitting in the Speedway pits, Colin Chapman's tiny green Lotuses looked like go-karts next to the burly Offies. They weighed only 1,130 Ibs. compared with nearly 1,400 Ibs. for the lightest Offy. Their power plants were Ford Fairlane V-8s-souped up to 376 h.p., but with carburetors, yet-and they got their nourishment from the good old Esso pump. Their drivers: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 27, and the U.S.'s Dan Gurney, 32, veterans of the European Grand Prix circuit, greenhorns at the Brickyard. Their chances...
...side for a salary of $8,000 a year, has turned LAV's old losses into profits by cracking down on bribes and padded payrolls and by negotiating a reciprocal jet-leasing agreement under which VIASA jets carry KLM passengers from Caracas to New York and KLM DC-8s handle VIASA traffic between Lima and Europe...
...president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year-old strike against Southern Airways that has already cost ALPA some $2 million...
...Caribbean last week won a three-year MATS contract to fly service families to Europe. To handle the $3,500,000 worth of business that it is guaranteed each year of the MATS contract, Trans Caribbean will have to add more jets to its present fleet of three DC-8s. This will oblige Chalk to negotiate yet another seven-figure loan, but since he has been careful to pay back past loans ahead of schedule, he now has an open-pocketed friend at New York's Chase Manhattan Bank...