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Filmmaker Peter Charley arrived at the United Airlines check-in at San Francisco International Airport half an hour before his 11 a.m. flight to New York. The slow-moving line took nearly 30 minutes to clear. He then spent an additional 20 anxious minutes passing through security, expecting to miss his plane. But as usual, the departure was delayed. Relieved, Charley buckled into his seat and waited for takeoff. And waited. The pilot finally explained that his windscreen wiper needed fixing. Charley and other passengers fumed while mechanics fiddled. It took more than an hour before he was airborne...
...plane during a Denver stopover. Another hour passed. After reboarding, they waited 40 minutes for takeoff. By the time they reached New York at 1 a.m., four hours overdue, La Guardia's runways were closed for the night, and the jumbo jet was diverted to Kennedy. At La Guardia, Charley's girlfriend Melanie waited for three hours before learning what had happened. Poor Charley had almost become the jet-age version of the 1959 Kingston Trio hit about the "man who never returned." Declared Charley: "If I had any choice, I'd never fly again. It is a gauntlet...
...record summer of domestic air traffic nears its Labor Day-weekend climax, millions of irate and weary passengers are echoing Charley's sentiments, recounting similar stories of sitting in stuffy airports or in cramped airliners stalled at terminal gates or queued on taxiways. The Federal Aviation Administration reports that delays in the first seven months of this year have climbed fully 30% over the same period last year...
Scoring: H. Lane Kenworthy (Nikhil Singh) 9:14; Y. Kevin Genda (Charley Dumphy) 12:53; H, Paul Nicholas (Singh) 36:17; H. Nick Hotchkin (Kenworthy) 65:13; H. Kenworthy (unassisted...
...quoted a citation that accompanied an honorary degree Sinatra received last month from New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology. The final panel carried a mid-1960s photo of Sinatra with Aniello Dellacroce, who was described as an "alleged human . . . later charged with the murder of Gambino Family Member Charley Calise...