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...Paris of Kertesz's early career was the cockpit of modernism, where surrealists, Dadaists and constructivists fanned the air with their manifestos. Kertesz felt the breeze but sailed his own course. He absorbed the lessons of constructivism, without becoming an arctic formalist. His fellow Hungarian expatriate Laszlo Moholy-Nagy could turn people into compositional load bearers upholding a grand design. Kertesz linked his formal sense to benign temperament. Joining elegant compositions to gentle human anecdotes, he achieved a formalism with the juice still flowing...
...largest carrier in the U.S., United faced its first pilots' strike since 1951. The issue that divides the airline and the people in the cockpit goes beyond a dispute over salaries or fringe benefits. At stake is a so- called two-tier wage system that would put new employees on a different pay scale from present ones. Under the United proposal, the starting salary for new pilots would drop from $22,452 to $21,600. In addition, newly hired pilots would remain on lower pay scales for the roughly 20 years that it takes to reach the rank of captain...
United pilots argue that the proposal could cause troubles in the cockpit. Joseph Leroy, a 727 captain, says the two-tier system would bring "great dissension" because people would be getting different pay for exactly the same work. Says he: "The cockpit depends on mutual respect and trust. We cannot afford that kind of trouble." The pilots also cite a long list of wage and benefit concessions they have made over the past several years. Finally, the pilots point to the airline's 1984 operating earnings of $564 million. It was United's most profitable year ever...
...particles of food and feces spewing from the pens of 24 rats and two squirrel monkeys in the $1 billion, 15-ton, European- built Spacelab stowed in Challenger's cargo bay. So pervasive was the odiferous tide that it was carried through a connecting tunnel into the shuttle's cockpit. "This isn't very much fun, guys," complained Commander Robert Overmyer to Mission Control...
...most fun parts of the game"--but because he is the sports world's most overwrought flyer since Broadcaster John Madden. "What may stop him is that flying," says his father Walter, from whom he inherited the queasy sensation. On Canadian airlines, Gretzky is brought to the cockpit for soothing by the pilots. It is hard to express what a towering figure he is north of the 49th parallel. His $21 million hockey contract extending to the end of the millennium constitutes about a third of his earnings after adding cereals, pillowcases and Barbie-size Wayne dolls. All the same...