Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring she took Billie Joe to Capitol, where despite its length (four minutes-plus; most pop tunes run close to three), it caught the sharp ears of Star-maker-Producer Kelly Gordon. The result: three major TV bookings this fall so far. A further result: millions of puzzled Americans coast to coast, ready to start dragging the Tallahatchie...
...they may well add up to ten." So says G. Robert Henry, 51, president of Pacific Air Lines. Henry's arithmetic stems from the profits he anticipates from a merger of Pacific and two other regional, or feeder, airlines: Phoenix's Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. The system, after approval by stockholders and the CAB, will cover eight Western states...
Perilous Pitch. West Coast, operating primarily in the Northwest, earned a handsome $836,000 on revenues of $18 million last year despite a number of low-profit, short-hop routes and a 20-plane fleet burdened by eight aging DC-3s. One of its biggest assets is its president and 30% owner, Nick Bez, 72, long a kingpin of the Democratic Party in Washington State. Bez will be chairman of the new line...
Expanding his employee health service, he set up the Kaiser Foundation that today provides medical services in 18 hospitals and 40 clinics for 1,500,000 West Coast members. One of his most notable projects-and notable failures -was making automobiles. He and Joseph W. Frazer bought a surplus bomber plant in 1945 with a Government loan of $44 million, began turning out Kaisers, Frazers and, later, Henry Js. They sold well until postwar supplies of new cars caught up with demand: then, competition from Detroit's Big Three put Kaiser-Frazer out of the auto business. Kaiser repaid...
...hero, Gog, is a giant washed ashore naked on the Scottish coast near Edinburgh just after V-E day. Gog has no memory, and the only clues to his identity are tattoos on the back of his left and right hands reading Gog and Magog-the names of two giant wooden figures in the City of London.* The novel, fable or parable tells the story of Gog's pilgrimage from Edinburgh to London in quest of himself...