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...Montreal, $99 to Brussels, $49 to Atlanta and $69 to Dallas. Before last week the least expensive flight between the New York-Newark area and Atlanta was Delta's $99 one-way fare. Passengers were required to buy those tickets one month in advance. Even a 19-hour Greyhound bus trip over the route costs $104. No wonder People's first week of flights to Atlanta was nearly sold out. The passengers did not seem to mind the airline's standard no-frills policy, which requires them to pay up to $2 for in-flight snacks and $3 for each...
People has had difficulty in managing its own rapid growth. Its Newark base, which is more like a giant bus station than an airline terminal, is often uncomfortably congested. In addition, passengers find it frustrating to make reservations by telephone because the lines always seem to be busy. Says Harold Binder, a travel agent at Trade Mark Tours of Miami: "We just can't get through." Some resourceful customers have discovered a solution: stay up past midnight before calling...
...that skeleton was in charge. It did something to me, lifted my intensity a level, made me approach long-term goals like they were short-term goals. That winter I was playing for Reggie Otero, Hutch's third-base coach, in Venezuela. We were bouncing along in the bus, listening to the Spanish radio, when I thought I heard someone mention Hutchinson, and Reggie started crying. I knew Hutch was dead...
...least 200 marches for open housing in Milwaukee and was arrested more than a dozen times for his protests; of brain cancer; in Milwaukee. When Groppi left the priesthood in 1976 to marry a fellow activist, he was excommunicated from the church. He later worked as a bus driver and in 1983 became president of his city's transit-union local. He once told an interviewer, "Agitate, agitate, agitate is my motto...
With its sleek curves, blazing red paint and open-backed platform, London 's Routemaster bus has earned a place alongside Big Ben and Buckingham Palace as a British icon. Sadly, after nearly a half-century of loyal service since they first hit the roads in 1956, these old-fashioned double deckers are being phased out in favor of newer models that are more accessible to the elderly and disabled and don't require a bus conductor to check tickets. By 2006, there won't be a single Routemaster left on the capital's roads. But London 's loss could...