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Fourteen years ago, Munir Abu-Haidar founded Trans-Mediterranean Airways as a creaky charter service linking Beirut with neighboring wastelands where oil was being scouted. Today the line flies not only to England and the European Continent, but also to Bombay, Karachi, Tokyo and Taipei. Last year its planes logged 34 million ton-miles, 41% more than the previous year. Last week Abu-Haidar was negotiating for the lease of two 707 jets, with which he hopes to increase his ton-mileage to 50 million...
...apostle on the move," was the way Pope Paul VI referred to himself when he ascended the papal throne five years ago. Since then he has been as good as his word, logging five trips abroad, including visits to the Holy Land, Bombay and New York City. This August he will undertake his longest voyage yet-to Bogotá, Colombia, more than 11,000 miles round trip from the Vatican, to attend the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One result of his journey will be to scotch rumors that he's been in fragile health. But the Pontiff...
Intercontinental for Keeps. Fundikira is "proud that we have been setting the airline pace for the rest of black Africa," and now he is stepping it up. The international operations, which already include service to London, Paris, Rome, Bombay, Karachi and Aden, have just been expanded with flights to Athens. And after its fourth VC-10 arrives this year, E.A.A. will move on to Bangkok, then to Hong Kong, Denmark, Belgium and Switzerland...
...buzzing, roaring De Havilland biplanes, E.A.A. pilots crisscrossed the area's four territories-Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (merged into Tanzania in 1964)-bringing air service to such remote spots as Lake Victoria and Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses on domestic flights. Going intercontinental for keeps, it boldly spent $6,000,000, or double its assets, to buy two Comets. E.A.A. soon had the planes paying handsomely by flying them 14 hours...
Nayar's interest in squash began when he and some friends got together to play afternoons after school. "The Cricket Club of India was just next door to our house in Bombay," he said, and he practiced on its squash courts for two years without instruction...