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...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 to eleven and the ranks of feeder lines have remained at 13, the number of air-taxi operators certified by the Federal Aviation Agency has nearly doubled, from...
Learning from TV. Much of that money went into a sound, economic infrastructure for the northeast. The newly completed 380-mile "Friendship Highway," with its 500 miles of feeder roads, cuts the travel time between Bangkok and the Laotian border from weeks (depending on the weather) to a mere eight hours, at the same time opening vast new markets for the northeast's cash crops of jute, tobacco and maize. Last week more than 300 vehicles an hour were moving along the highway. And if Communist aggression ever comes to Thailand on the scale of Viet Nam, the highway...
Anonymous Losers. At suburban Bostons Milton Academy-long a prep feeder for Harvard-a pleasant boy whose three brothers, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had attended Harvard learned from Milton's dean that Harvard had "shot me down." In Chicago an attractive, intelligent girl learned that she had been rejected by Mount Holyoke. "I kept saying to myself I'm not going to cry,' " she recalls. "Then I went up to the library and cried. At exclusive North Shore Country Day School m nearby Winnetka, one of the school's brightest boys...
Griffith's generosity worries his co-manager Howard Albert, owner of a ladies' hat factory where Emile worked - as a "feeder" for the assembly line -before he took up fighting. Emile has a "spending problem," says Albert. He's made close to $750,000 in 50 fights, and he's spent it, on other people. Griffith shrugs. After all, he does own a 1965 Lincoln, "a lot of clothes," and 15 pairs of shoes. "I'm all right," he says. "And I enjoy taking care of the family...
Born in Oklahoma and educated in Texas, Lawrence was a Link Trainer instructor during World War II, started a Texas feeder airline with two partners after the war. He flew while studying for a law degree, later took over the sales department of the small line, which changed its name from Essair to Pioneer. Continental got Lawrence in 1955 when it absorbed Pioneer, quickly recognized that he was the most valuable asset acquired in the deal. By 1958, Continental President Robert Six had promoted Lawrence to executive vice president-the industry's youngest-in charge of the airline...