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...France, Air Inter began operating in 1960 as France's first and only domestic airline. "Why bother?" asked many Frenchmen, accustomed to zipping along France's long, poplar-lined roads at Citroen speed-80 m.p.h. and upward. Air Inter soon proved why. Cramming passengers into mini-bucket seats, and serving only Le Figaro and fruit juice in flight, the line carried 16,000 passengers in its first year, passed 500,000 in 1964, reached 1,170,000 last year. It started with a handful of chartered planes and a staff of ten, now has 23 aircraft...
...adults, the Z picture stands for zzzz, but for teenagers, it's strictly zowie. It goes with such titles as The Brain Eaters, The Bucket of Blood and Little Shop of Horrors (which was filmed in a record two days on a starvation budget of $37,000). A.I.P.'s classic horror title was I Was a Teenage Werewolf, which caused traffic jams at drive-in theaters and earned $2,000,000. Similarly, A.I.P. has made quick killings on bargain-basement Biblicals (Goliath and the Barbarians, Goliath and the Sins of Babylon), on way-outer spaces (Angry Red Planet...
...Bucket Brigade. As consternation spread in the coastal counties of Devon and Cornwall, Prime Minister Wilson set up a ministerial-level emergency committee to coordinate local and national measures, named it "Operation Canute," after the 11th century English king who ordered the waves to recede-and got dunked. When all hopes of salvaging the tanker and its remaining cargo died, Wilson ordered several flights of fighter-bombers to zero in on the Torrey Canyon, then headed for his vacation retreat on the oil-threatened Scilly Isles to watch the action. For three days, the planes plastered the Torrey Canyon with...
After rushing to a quick and crushing 20-4 lead, aided by the dazed Flyers 18 misses in their first 20 shots, the Bruins coasted in behind the 7' 1" Alcindor's various forms of intimidation under the bucket and the flashy ball-handling and shootof guards Warren (18 points) and Lucius Allen (19). Bruin forward Lynn Shackelford dropped in 12 additional markers and fifth man Kenny Heitz turned in a sparkling defensive job on Dayton high scorer Don May, limiting him to 6 points in the first half...
Cornell University's West Sibley Hall had a jewel of a janitor-for a couple of hours, anyway, as Historian Clinton Rossiter, 49, scrabbled around with bucket and scrub brush. Rossiter doesn't think the hired help who are supposed to clean up the 100-year-old home of the government and history departments have been paying attention to his office. "The janitors have no time to clean up here," Rossiter announced, as he staged a protest "scrub-in" with six of his students and three other professors. "They're too busy watering the potted palms over...