Word: conn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have begun operating, or sharply expanding, cargo-plane services of their own. Flying Tiger Line of Los Angeles, the largest U.S. all-cargo carrier (1980 revenues: $713 million), ships everything from oil-drilling equipment and Pharmaceuticals to machine parts, chemicals and cut flowers. Emery Air Freight Corp. of Wilton, Conn. (1980 revenues: $551 million), operates 62 aircraft serving 130 airports in North America, Europe and the Pacific. Federal Express of Memphis flies 60 jets delivering small packages overnight. Federal Express is so confident about its ability to maintain service despite the strike that last week it started a $7 million...
...headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Chairman Edward Jefferson had gathered some 60 top advisers, secretaries, chauffeurs and the pilots of the company's jets to celebrate Du Pont's victory in the greatest takeover struggle in American corporate history. Only 160 miles to the north, in Stamford, Conn., Conoco executives met in Chairman Ralph Bailey's office for their own celebration. One vice president walked up to the bar and jocularly ordered, "Seagram's on the rocks...
DIED. Abram Kardiner, 89, American psychoanalyst who in 1930 co-founded the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the first psychiatric training school in the U.S., and was one of the last persons living to have been analyzed by Sigmund Freud; in Easton, Conn. A leader in the "environmental" school of psychiatry, which stresses the interplay of the psyche and culture, Kardiner once described Freud-his teacher and analyst in 1921 -as both a "genius," and "a regular...
...summer camp in the woodsy countryside near Moodus, Conn., has the usual hiking trails, volleyball courts and swimming area. But the youthful campers are reluctant to test the great outdoors. Says Director Michael Zabinski: "We encourage the kids to go swimming, but we don't require it. After all, it's air-conditioned inside and it's hot and muggy outside...
...newest form of summer retreat: computer camps. There, instead of naming wild flowers and singing One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall, boys and girls ages ten to 18 devise electronic games and learn computer languages like BASIC and PASCAL. At Computer Camp East in East Haddam, Conn., Vit Henisz, 12, articulates the campers' current philosophy: "Time for recreation is forced on us. Computer time...