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...Airlines in a Nose Dive" [March 22], you pointed out Pan Am's falling load factor and said, "TWA's [load factor] dropped even further in the first two months of this year to 49.1%." Untrue! TWA's load factor rose by 1.7 percentage points in the first two months of 1982 to 53.2%, reflecting our continuing program of reducing excess capacity-the plague of the industry...
Seldom had Pro Golfer Jerry Pate's follow-through seemed more fluid. Of course, the former U.S. Open winner had had a bit of practice. After winning the Memphis Classic a year ago, he stunned spectators and a national television audience by diving joyously into a water hazard. After winning the $90,000 first-place prize at the Tournament Players Championship in Ponte Vedra, Fla., Pate, 28, plotted to make an even bigger splash. "Come here, I want you to see something," said Pate to P.G.A. Tour Commissioner Deane Beman, 43, leading him to the edge of the water...
...street-mime who had staked out this part of the avenue. His schtick, which attracted a large crowd every day, was to follow unsuspecting pedestrians about a step behind them, imitating the way they walked Every so often, he would run ahead of one of his subjects and dive onto the sidewalk to look up her skirt. One day, an elderly woman he was following whipped around and sprayed him in the face with a can of mace...
...People have conceded first place to Danny Watson, and maybe even second to Jeff," Coach John Walker said. "If anyone has to dive well it's Karl and Steve...
Harvard's defensive hustle set up the offense. Back-row players got the ball to the setters, and the defense never gave up on a ball. Even when the Crimson led by 10 in the second game, the players continued to dive at every spike...