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Compared with last year's reservations for flights from April 1 to July 1, Pan Am's bookings to Europe are up 30% and TWA's 58% . Even more spectacular is the surge in reservations for flights to the U.S.; Alitalia and BOAC both have increases of more than 100% , while Air France, SAS, KLM, Lufthansa and Swissair have gained 12% to 30% . Airline executives expect a record number of tourists to be attracted to the U.S. by the bargain fares, coinciding as they do with the opening of the New York World's Fair...
...Concorde's delivery dates from 1970 to 1971, cutting its lead time over the planned U.S. supersonic craft. The Concorde will also cost more than originally intended: buyers will not pay $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 but closer to $10,000,000. Such airlines as Alitalia, El Al and Air-India have ordered the U.S. supersonic plane instead of the Concorde, and even Air France and British Overseas Airways Corp. have abandoned their single-minded reliance on the Concorde by ordering...
...shook hands with a platform-full of dignitaries, including Italian President Antonio Segni and Premier Aldo Moro. Clearly enjoying his venture, the Pope blessed the crowd (tough old Socialist Pietro Nenni, Italy's Vice Premier, conspicuously refused to cross himself) before taking his seat in the Vatican-chartered Alitalia...
With his retinue of about 30 clerics and guards, Pope Paul will leave Italy early on Jan. 4 by a leased Alitalia DC-8, which will fly around Israel and get an escort of Jordanian Air Force fighter planes before setting down at Amman around noon. Despite the personal character of his trip, the Pope will have to accept the pomp of welcome due to a head of state: King Hussein will be on hand to greet him, and cannons will roar out a 21-gun salute...
...talking about a trip to Rome. But go to Rome without boys? A girl would as soon go dateless to a drive-in. So Gidget gets Moondoggie, her beach-bum boy friend, to line up a couple of blind dates for her chums. Quicker than one can say Alitalia the adolescent sextet is scampering down the Spanish Steps, posing for gag snapshots in front of St. Peter's, twisting in the Baths of Caracalla. "Pinch me," says Gidget. Someone does, and she knows she is really, truly in the Eternal City...