Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like to go somewhere," clarioned American Airlines' full-page ads, "we'll pay half your fare." Since American's President Marion Sadler launched that youth-fare plan three months ago, eight other U.S. airlines have reluctantly followed suit, and more than 300,000 kids (12 to 22) have bought the $3 I.D. cards that allow them to fly anywhere in the U.S., on a stand-by basis, at half the normal fare. Now some of the carriers want to tell the kids where to get off. Last week, arguing that the plan had brought only "ill will...
...phoning in a false reservation in advance, then showing up at flight time to take the fictitious no-show's seat. In one of the newer ploys, called "one stop through hop," two teen-age girls recently boarded a New York-to-Minneapolis Northwest Airlines flight with half-fare tickets good only through an intermediary stop, Milwaukee. Gambling that the stewardesses wouldn't check, they kept their seats in Milwaukee, went on to Minneapolis for free...
...When they get "bumped" by adult passengers at intermediate stops, their angry parents keep airline phones tied up trying to locate them. Currently under CAB consideration is Delta's proposal to cut down the abuses and inconveniences by offering the kids reserved flights at two-thirds the normal fare. Privately, Delta and the other carriers wish that Sadler had kept his brain child to himself...
...been headed by Britain's Sir William ("Dick") Hildred, now 72. Under Hildred, IATA has set standards for everything from meals to airplane-seat sizes. From his headquarters in Montreal, Hildred has long courted controversy, and both friend and enemy agreed that above all he was a fare...
Iolanthe conveniently divides its chorus into two parts: noblemen and fairies. The noblemen in the current production have been inadequately directed all around, and they neither sing clearly nor move in unison. For the most part the fairies fare better, but they too have their troubles. One had a noticeable case of laryngitis last night...