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While the Wellesley minister explained patiently to a girl from the University of Colarado that it wouldn't pay for her to take a cab out to her roommate's cousin's house in Baltimore, and that the Georgetown University gym wouldn't be all that uncomfortable, another young man wearing an official-looking badge ordered people out into the buses for Arlington Cemetery and the death march...
...slept after dinner and was reinvigorated: he struck out ahead to search for a cab. As he stomped authoritatively ahead I realized that he was still a tough little kid from the Bronx who, like so many others, felt the unsurpassable need to always be in the lead...
Marvin began his tour in Houston looking trim and hickory-hard, striding through the airport like a drill sergeant in Dacron. Trailing behind were his large pressagent, his little manager, Meyer Mishkin, and local studio men handing out photographs and toting bags. "Hey!" shouted a cab driver, clapping an arm around Marvin's shoulder. "Where's your horse...
Henry M. Switkay, Special Counsel for the CAB. said recently that the airlines asked for fare changes "because their costs have been increasing and their profits going down." The airlines were granted a fare increase in February, 1969, so the CAB made up the new rate per miles travelled formula instead of raising prices across the board again...
...CAB decided tentatively in August that the fares were not "unjust or unreasonable," as had been charged earlier, but remanded the case for further hearings before an examiner. This was considered a major victory for the proponents of youth fare...