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...American 707s or old Russian planes with ventilation systems that let in the clouds, their schedules are pretty flexible. You call ahead about the flight and then wait at the airport till the weather's right. When the plane from Hangchow did take off we almost reached Canton, ran into a storm, and flew back, like the aviators in A Night at the Opera...
Whatever the cause, Switzerland was once again suffering from one of its periodic bouts of xenophobia last week. "We just don't feel at home in our country any more," declared Valentin Oehen, 43, a parliamentary deputy from the conservative canton of Lucerne. Oehen and his National Action Party, an ultraconservative splinter group, proposed a constitutional amendment that would limit the number of foreigners in Switzerland's 6.3 million population to 500,000. Under the measure, more than half of the 1,052,000 foreign residents in the country would have to be deported. Even foreigners who have...
...Canton, Ohio...
...through precise scheduling and by ridding it of its small-town runs. Barnes also runs a marketing and planning division that probably is the best in the industry. Two years ago, he inspired a joint ticketing and routing operation with Pan American that enables an Allegheny passenger in, say, Canton, Ohio, or Lexington, Ky., to buy a single ticket straight through to Paris or any other Pan Am stop. In 1973 the program took in $5.3 million, 90% more than the previous year...
...grand jury accused the Guardsmen of violating the civil rights of the demonstrators by assaulting and intimidating them. Five defendants-Lawrence A. Shafer, 28, and James D. McGee, 27, both of Ravenna, Ohio; William E. Perkins, 28, of Canton, Ohio; James E. Pierce, 29, of Amelia Island, Fla.; and Ralph W. Zoller, 27, of Mantua, Ohio -were charged with felonies for the four deaths. If convicted, all could be sentenced from one year to life in prison. The other three defendants-Barry W. Morris, 29, of Kent; Mathew J. McManus, 28, of West Salem, Ohio; and Leon H. Smith...