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...circ. 2.25 million). In the past few years the 49-year-old magazine confused advertisers with numerous ownership and editorial changes, building up a current deficit of $5 million in the process. After the February issue American Home will be folded into Redbook by the owner of both, the Charter...
Chairman Alfred Kahn, 60, a Cornell economist who was appointed by Carter in May, is one of the rare bureaucrats who is trying to put his agency at least partly out of business. Under him, the CAB has given the airlines more freedom to lower fares and expand charter flights. Kahn is impatient with bureaucratic obstructionism. He learned, for example, that a petition by the city of Columbus, Ohio, for more airline service had not been answered for eight years by the CAB. An aide recalls Kahn's mastication of the responsible bureaucrats: "He bit them so hard...
...sixth in which members of a U.S. athletic team traveling as a group were killed and the second in which an entire team was wiped out. The first was in 1961, when all 18 members of the U.S. figure-skating team perished in the crash of a chartered jet in Belgium. Federal regulations require charter pilots to pass stiff medical and flying tests and hold small charter firms to almost the same strict maintenance requirements met by big commercial carriers. The DC-3 in last week's crash was almost 30 years old but, according to officials...
Meanwhile the Constitutional Convention went about its task of writing a charter for a proposed student government by outlining the six broad issues it will consider in its debates...
...Boston, the voters tossed out of office a trio of the city's antibusing leaders, including Louise Day Hicks, the soft-spoken but tough-talking former councilwoman who had become the symbol of resistance to integration. Simultaneously, however, the voters turned down a reform of the city charter designed to make it harder-by changing representational patterns-for one small, determined group, like the antibusers, to have more power than they deserve. Charter reform succumbed to a cautious electorate that preferred to switch candidates instead of the system...