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...twin-engine Fairchild F227 chartered from the Uruguayan air force took off from Montevideo carrying an amateur rugby team and a planeload of friends and supporters to Santiago, Chile. Most never completed their journey. The plane slammed into a mountainside at an altitude of more than 11,000 ft. Of the 45 people on board, only 32, some critically injured, were alive the next morning...
...inspiration behind these noms de plume is WWD Publisher John Fairchild. Most Esterhazy items are written by Fairchild himself (he is usually "Louise"), though Adelita's effort was the work of Karen Winner. The habit of killing off Esterhazys springs from Fairchild's mordant interpretation of the term "once-in-a-lifetime assignment." Says Editor Michael Coady: "It's a fun thing we have around here." Hungarian monarchists on the staff are said to be particularly amused...
...year that seems to be so devoted to the Chanel principles of simplicity and elegance, the late fashion empress's own line-by Balenciaga-trained Ramon Esparza-ironically fell flat. Though WWD Publisher John Fairchild found the collection "young and different," it was all but hooted out of Paris by local authorities. "An incredible pell-mell of belted raglans, monkey-trimmed redingotes, hippy waistcoats, red rainproofs and dollie-see-through dresses," Le Figaro concluded unbelievingly. "They look like bad copies of good originals...
After long urging by former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, the Pentagon is now moving to a fixed-price "fly-before-you-buy" system. In the first award in years under this system, Fairchild Industries' Republic Division, -based on Long Island, was picked last week to produce the A-10 combat support plane. Fairchild landed the contract only after it agreed to hold prices to $1.4 million per plane and its prototype won a "fly-off" against a plane made by California's Northrop Corp. If the A-10 continues to please the Air Force after...
Died. Mundy I. Peale, 66, hard-driving former president (1947-64) of the old Republic Aviation Corp. (now a division of Fairchild Hiller Corp.) who set production records during World War II, then led the company from nose-diving postwar sales to profitable production of the F-84 Thunderjets used in Korea and the F-105s flown by the Air Force during the early '60s; following a stroke; in Laramie...