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...bonanza has caught many travel organizations with their telexes down. Carefree David Travels, an Atlanta-based agency that puts together charter packages for travel agents, has had to add five staffers and five telephone lines since June 1, and could use five more employees if it had time to train them. Charter Travel Corp., which specializes in scheduled charters and operates out of Chicago and Minneapolis, has added eight U.S. cities and three European destinations...
...Charter flights, which six years ago accounted for 28% of the tourist traffic, lost much of their business, but in the past two years have steadily regained force. This summer privately booked aircraft hope to take some 15% of all American tourists abroad. No longer is the charter trip uncertain and uncomfortable. Such is the buying power of travel wholesalers that packagers can almost always provide better rooms and entertainment for the price than the individual can negotiate. Says Air Florida Official Robin Cohn: "It's almost stupid not to take a charter package...
...newer female counterpart group, made up of women from Kirkland and Eliot Houses, was founded to have "a women's club so that we can sit around and drink like men," says Kirsten Shirley '85, a charter member and original founder of LEWD...
...turned out, Bok opted for 33 Elmwood, the traditional residence of the Dean of the Faculty. (The University's original charter requires its president to live in Cambridge.) The financial advantage of the University-owned home is clearly great, but as one official observes, the requirement that the President entertain in his official residence can prove a drawback, "If I had to have someone to dinner every night," he says, "I would consider it a cost...
...both S and Ls and savings banks. Prices of some S-and-L stocks have more than tripled in the past year. The big gainers include a pair of Beverly Hills thrifts: Great Western Financial Corp. (assets: $12.8 billion), whose shares have climbed 172% since May, and First Charter Financial Corp. (assets: $9.4 billion), up 233% during the same period...