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...Reservations. An electronic reservations system that can instantly tell Western Air Lines ticket clerks throughout its U.S. system what seats are available on all flights was put into operation, the first in the airline industry. Built around a memory drum, the system permits 96 reservations desks to book and cancel flights, immediately inform passengers of schedule changes...
Ironically, many seats went empty on planes. Thousands of passengers booked seats on several airlines in hopes of getting on just one. then forgot to cancel. One major line had 600 no-shows in one city. This left space aplenty for stand-by passengers, who had the patience and courage to wait at drafty airports for any space available. Actually, most travelers got where they wanted to go, but many had to wind around circuitous routes on odd carriers, arrived frazzled...
...workmanlike sentences bear no resemblance to Cozzens' involuted maze. Like Cozzens, O'Hara tries to strike a balance sheet on a man's life at the mid-century mark. With Cozzens, O'Hara seems to agree that the assets and liabilities all but cancel out, leaving a chilling desolation of spirit in which futility is challenged only by fatalism. Of Alfred Eaton, as of Cozzens' Arthur Winner, it can be said that he achieves a kind of strength through joylessness except that with O'Hara's Eaton the licked wounds never quite heal...
...until three weeks ago, when the first U.S. oilmen from Loeb. Rhoades arrived at La Ventana oilfield in Mendoza province, did the meaning of Frondizi's deals sink home. A group of Peronista oilworkers in Mendoza gave Frondizi 48 hours to cancel the oil contracts. When Frondizi ignored their ultimatum, they struck. The national oilworkers' union then called for a nationwide walkout, and other Communist-and-Peronista-dominat-ed unions threatened a general strike...
...week's end Rodzinski abandoned his air of detached tolerance for a role more familiar to the Chicago fans. Down with a heavy cold, Rodzinski announced that on doctor's orders he was forced to cancel the first performance of Boris Godunov (which probably means that he will cancel all three). "You know why he needs all those doctors?" confided his wife to 'tiptoeing guests. "To tell him that he's all right...