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Adding edge to quite another type of appetite is their third companion, the wife of the Swiss ambassador (Marlene Jobert). She gives the men asylum and a ride past the German checkpoint, where things do not go well. The Germans are suspicious, and the wife tears off into the desert like an ace getaway driver. The bullets fly, and it is all great fun. Jobert also takes a shine to her two anxious soldiers of fortune, although which one she truly loves becomes a source of good-humored competition...
Aided by a strong tailwind and throngs of encouraging spectators. Will Rodgers took command of the 79th running of the Boston Marathon at the Wellesley checkpoint and sped to a record-breaking victory yesterday, winning in the phenomenal time of 2 hours 9 minutes and 55 seconds...
Instead they were rerouted to another checkpoint where they were promptly pointed back in the direction from which they had just come; soon they were pathetically moving back and forth between the blockades...
...American Airlines terminal is not the airport's busiest. Braniff's is. American does not have a security checkpoint at each gate. Braniff and Texas International did not send some of their flights back to Love Field as a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, but to compete with Southwest Airlines, which remains at Love...
...design of the American Airlines terminal, the airport's busiest, was completed before new security regulations went into effect, making it impossible to screen passengers for various flights at one checkpoint. As a result, each loading gate has become a security gate, creating delay and confusion. Baggage-handling problems have been particularly vexing, again because of overcomputerization. Passengers have complained that the system chews up their bags as voraciously as if they were hamburgers, though the operation has been improved. As a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, the distance from downtown, and the exorbitant runway fees...