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...case of an accident or some other untoward breach of security (though airlines have painfully learned never, never to drop an executive's wife a friendly follow-up note asking how she enjoyed her trip). Others avoid any possibility of embarrassment by taking separate planes. For expense-accountsmen it is, of course, cheaper to take the same plane. "It's almost becoming standard practice," explains a U.S. travel agent in Paris, "for American businessmen to reserve two tourist-class seats and charge their companies for one first-class-making up the difference out of their own pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Love's Long Leap | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

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