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...wheel does not jabber, there is no traffic to sit through, tips are often forbidden and the view is exhilarating. This is a taxi? In many parts of the U.S., it is−an air taxi, the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Air taxis link the 600 cities served by scheduled airlines with more than 6,000 communities that are not, carry businessmen, government officials and celebrities where they need to go in a hurry, and perform hundreds of functions from serving as ambulances to charting forest fires. In the past ten years, while 13 major airlines have shrunk...
...Gold Cup means to powerboat racing roughly the same thing that the Indianapolis 500 does to auto racing. The boats are the biggest, fastest and trickiest to handle; powered by souped up 2,000-h.p. World War II aircraft engines, they scream along at speeds up to 180 m.p.h., tossing huge rooster tails of spray 40 ft. high in their wakes. The crowds are the biggest-300,000 or more. And the prize is the richest-$10,500, plus a new car to the winner. At last week's 58th annual running of the race on Seattle...
...meet the challenge by offering a wider range of accessories, diversifying into such gift items as statuary, ceramics, candy and perfume. In Dallas, Florist Harry Bullard stocks a large inventory of antiques, which he rents out for house and garden parties, often winds up selling. Pests & Pools. Easily the fastest-growing retailers in the florist industry are the owners of the nation's 3,500 garden centers, which have upped their sales by more than 30% in the last seven years, today account for better than a third of total industry sales. Manhattan's Goldfarb Flower Shops...
Europe's newly discovered riches of natural gas are creating a major upheaval in the world's fastest growing energy market. Across the Continent, the new gas finds are lighting an investment fever and bringing some chills to a vulnerable competitor, coal. As estimates grow of the size of The Netherlands' mammoth Groningen gas field (widely regarded as twice the official 1.1 trillion cubic meters), and as oilmen probe the bottom of the North Sea for what may be even larger deposits-one big one was hit last week off the West German island of Borkum...
...exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." Said Johnson: "Any man who can believe that and write it is the kind of man who ought to become the President's leader of the fastest-growing department in this Government...