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...executives call the world's biggest airline, even though Air France flies more route miles. United now has 149 jets and 18,000 miles of routes connecting 116 cities; last year it carried 17,340,000 passengers. Revenues last year reached $792.8 million and earnings $45.8 million. This autumn, service to Hawaii will include the first 250-passenger "stretch-model" DC-8s to be delivered. The airline is also gradually taking delivery on $750 million worth of new planes, and hopes to win a Pacific route to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...
SWANS ON AN AUTUMN RIVER, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. One of Britain's master short-storytellers shows that she has lost neither her deft cruelty nor her wise compassion in picturing human fallibility...
...whatever it was prompted India's Central Bureau of Investigation to assign a team of topflight investigators to try and track down Walcott. His trail led first to Europe again, then doubled back to Pakistan, where he showed up with a converted B-26 bomber shortly before last autumn's border war. The Pakistanis suspected that he was air-dropping watches and gold into India, but before they could interrogate him, Walcott skipped off, leaving the plane behind...
SWANS ON AN AUTUMN RIVER by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 222 pages. Viking...