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...more extensive reports from New York Correspondent Thomas McCarroll, who also made several flights and talked with People passengers, along with employees and ex-employees, competitors, Wall Street analysts and travel agents. In Bernardsville, N.J., he and Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer spoke at length with People Express Chairman Donald Burr. "It was an unorthodox, invigorating interview," McCarroll recalls. "It's rare for the chief executive of any company to be so frank. He never avoided a single question...
...morning of Thursday, Feb. 24, 15 FAS department chairs gathered in the Burr Hall wing of the Barker Center to discuss the crisis touched off at a Faculty meeting nine days earlier...
...best house in the system,” Associate Dean of the College and Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dudley House Thomas A. Dingman ’67 says. “I don’t know another part of Harvard where there’s the same element of mutual support...
Maria Trumpler, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Quincy House, points out that the policy change will have the positive effect of destroying the stigma surrounding non-honors graduates. In the past, some students have shed tears, Trumpler says, because speakers made jokes during Class Day celebrations at the expense of the 10 percent who left Harvard without honors...
...Burr is confidently pushing People into the hubs of two major competitors. Delta operates 375 flights a day out of its Atlanta base, and American jets take off 310 times daily from the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. Though People will offer only three flights a day to and from each city, it could still pose a threat. To claim his share of these two lucrative routes, Burr seems to be spoiling for a fight. "We expect to stimulate price wars whenever we enter new markets. We like that," he says. "When competitors make a lot of noise, it attracts the kind...