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...rejects toxins and triangles, and even people who jog, and meditates stubbornly on chocolate nut crunch, red meat and salted popcorn. She is intensely aware that it is impossible to smoke while the hands are bound across the chest by hot herb-soaked sheets...
...crunch will be most acute for the small manufacturers who supply major contractors. Hans Weiss of Manchester, Conn., whose Dynamic Metal Products Co. welds machined engine parts for the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters, has a two-year backlog of orders. He warns, "If subcontract work on the B-1 bomber comes here, we just won't be able to take it on." Apex Machine Tool Co. in nearby Farmington, Conn., which makes fixtures and gauges for giant lathes and milling machines used in aircraft production, is already running at 100% capacity. Says President...
Braniff badly needed the wage deferral assistance from its employees to ease a sudden and potentially ruinous cash crunch. The trouble arose when approximately $9 million worth of Braniff tickets were unexpectedly presented for redemption by the airline industry's ticket clearing house. The clearing house operates like a kind of back-office ticket exchange, allowing reservation agents for one airline to accept tickets for fares written by another carrier...
...offices for seats on BranifFs archrival, American Airlines. Last week allegations were made to the Civil Aeronautics Board by unspecified airline-industry insiders that American let the Braniff tickets accumulate, then abruptly dumped them into the clearinghouse hopper in a "dirty tricks" campaign designed to create a Braniff cash crunch and hasten the airline's demise. Though American Airlines dismissed the charge as "absolutely ridiculous," the CAB is looking into the matter anyway...
...last to graduate into a society relatively untouched by the Vietnam War. Gunnoe refers to his years as "the halcyon days, prior to the war building up...People felt they could do most anything they wanted to after graduation." There were wider possibilities for draft deferment then, before the crunch came in 1966. "Options tightened with the war, but we were full of possibilities." Gunnoe remembers...