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Across the U.S., the airport rush hour is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Here-as compiled from figures supplied by the FAA, the airlines and air-traffic controllers-are the average number of daily takeoffs and landings at the 20 busiest U.S. commercial airports, and the average rush-hour time a plane wastes circling the field or waiting to take...
...Russia and much of Europe, builders have been achieving construction economies for years with variations of Zachry's technique. "This is going to be the trend of the future," says Manhattan Architect William Tabler, the busiest U.S. designer of hotels. "What Zachry is doing is wonderful. I'd be doing it too, if we could." Like most contractors, Tabler blames organized labor for preventing adoption of such cost-cutting methods, sometimes by the threat of tying up a job in jurisdictional disputes, sometimes through covert control of local building codes. In New York City, for instance, Electrical Workers...
...vast River Rouge complex outside Detroit was eerily still in what should have been one of its busiest weeks. Across the country, 92 other Ford plants were shuttered in the second week of a United Auto Workers walkout. And at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first time in 35 years, the famed Rockettes, all 46 of them, refused to lift another shapely leg onstage until they were given a minimum of $140 a week (they now earn $99 to start...
...week's work capped the busiest month of the air campaign against the North. Flying some 150 missions a day, U.S. pilots hit North Viet Nam harder than ever before in the 21-year-old air war. The result was a growing confidence among airmen that at last they are hurting Ho measurably and meaningfully. Said the director of intelligence for the Seventh Air Force in Saigon, Brigadier General J. M. Philpott: "We're really doing...
...airlines, it was the busiest week of the year. By the tens of thousands, Americans were flying in from summer vacations, and foreign tourists were flying away after visits to the U.S. The resulting chaos at Kennedy gave ample warning of what lies ahead as the nation's airports approach what authorities call "complete saturation" in the surge of travelers to take their trips by air. Statistics suggest the future nightmare. Some 114 million people rode the 2,100 U.S. airliners that plied American skies in 1966. By 1977, when the 490-seat jumbo jets will be in full...