Word: cab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this plotting gets too thick. But since his story includes, among other misadventures, a one-night stand for each of his protagonists, an unwanted pregnancy and consequent flirtation with abortion, not to mention such urban delights as an attempted mugging, sudden death in the indifferent streets and a racist cab driver (Irwin Corey, working hard) whom Gardner tries desperately to make us see as a wise fool, the author has his work cut out for him. The smell of damp garbage never quite leaves this enterprise...
...latest addition to the confusing alphabet soup of special fares with which the airlines have been wooing cost-conscious travelers (see chart). Ironically, ABCs came into being last fall because of politics as much as economics-specifically, Gerald Ford's election-year advocacy of reduced Government regulation. The CAB yielded to pleas by the charter airlines to allow all carriers to offer, through travel agents, a more flexible plan: seats booked 30 to 45 days in advance, but no prepaid hotel accommodations and minimal restrictions on length of stay...
...foreign governments have as yet agreed to accept ABC flights. Nonetheless, about 50% of all charter applications received by the CAB since October have been for ABC trips, competitively priced as much as 40% below regular economy rates on scheduled flights. (In 1975 U.S. charter or supplemental airlines held about 10% of the total passenger travel market between Europe and the U.S.) Hotelkeepers, who stand to lose since ABC passengers are not required to buy ground accommodations, remain unperturbed. Says Arnold Orenstein, general manager of the Puerto Rico Sheraton in San Juan: "The more people travel, the better...
...disco acts, called me for advice. Lunched at Passim's, where I introduced him to a couple of friends who were in town, arranging appearances at nite spots around the Square. (He picked up the tab, and later bought Passims). Out on Mass Ave., he bought us a cab, and we drove downtown to Rupe's office in the recently-renamed Murdoch building. (The glass, Rupe reports, is firmly intact these days...
Learning Process. Dayton, a devout Mormon, studied radio and television at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, later wound up as a cab driver and part-time film technician in Los Angeles before deciding that the only way he could break into the business in a big way would be to become a film maker himself. He now drives a brown Cadillac Seville (license: GRATED) and is working on a deal to merge with a California book publisher. Why? Says he: "It looks to us like a synergistic merger. That's a word I just learned. It means...