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Discount airlines are still the most potent force in challenging the high fares in the majors' "fortress hubs." Before ValuJet resumed service between Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth in April, a round-trip ticket cost $490; subsequently, the price dropped to $138. Flying into an "alternative city" served by many discount carriers can also shave dollars. A round trip between San Diego, Calif., and Washington costs $564, but flying into Baltimore, Md., instead, a route now covered by Southwest, costs $268. "The low-cost carriers are driving the big guys crazy in cities where there was no competition," says Parsons...
...release. Haut, now 75 (he and his wife have license plates that read MR UFO and MRS UFO), remembers Blanchard's saying, "We have in our possession a flying saucer. This thing crashed north of Roswell, and we've shipped it all to General Ramey, 8th Air Force at Fort Worth...
...June or early July 1947. On July 8, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release saying it had recovered the wreckage of a "flying disk," sparking incredulous news stories around the world. A few hours later, a general at the regional Army Air Force command in Fort Worth, Texas, where the debris had been sent for further analysis, announced that what had really been recovered was a weather balloon. This is the indisputable core of the Roswell Incident. Whether one chooses to believe that the government has been covering up an affair involving extraterrestrials is, of course...
...boys' father, an Army sergeant, had recently been sent to Bosnia-Herzegovina with the 41st Infantry out of Fort Riley, Kans.; otherwise, Christopher Wilson, 11, and his brother Terrell, 8, had little reason to feel uneasy on that Thursday morning. But as they stood waiting for a school bus in their rural subdivision in Milford on April 24, the Wilsons saw three menacing Rottweilers approaching them. The boys took off for temporary safety in a nearby clump of trees. When the older brother climbed down to run to get help, though, the dogs attacked him. The driver of the school...
...campgrounds are in the wilderness, either. Las Vegas' Circus Circus casino has a campground, and Disney World has Fort Wilderness, where if visitors tire of Fantasyland, they can go canoeing and horseback riding. For some people this may be too much of a good thing. Much to the chagrin of folks like the Sutherlands, many campgrounds now have something they never had before: NO VACANCY signs...