Word: franciscos
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...energy and attention." Of course. But would these corporate chiefs have had to fight for their jobs and perks if they had been building the balance sheets for the benefit of stockholders instead of concentrating on short-term operating statements for their own benefit? Earl D. Brodie San Francisco...
...People Express, the fastest-growing airline in the annals of aviation. People is slashing most of its fares this week by 30% to 60%. Passengers can fly from the carrier's Newark base to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other Florida cities for $69, to Los Angeles and San Francisco for $99, to Minneapolis for $49 and to Greensboro or Raleigh, N.C., for $29. By changing planes in Newark, People Express customers can fly from Chicago to Florida or from Boston to Houston for $99. People's biggest bargain of all is a nonstop flight from San Francisco to Brussels...
...Sunday after Thanksgiving, People's busiest day of the year. The cramped building was so crowded that human gridlock developed. Hundreds of people never made it onto a plane and spent the night at the airport. On Dec. 20, People stranded 160 Newark-bound passengers in San Francisco because of overbooking...
...manager, Burr has a penchant for delivering sermons to his flock on how to do a better job. He zealously believes that his populist, everybody-is-important organization can make a better world, or at least a better kind of capitalism. Says William Hambrecht, a San Francisco financier whose firm helped Burr raise $24 million to start the company: "Don Burr is really operating from a philosophical base, rather than a financial one. Monetary success is almost incidental. He's after much more than that...
...height--and now.810 on the Hall of Fame ballot. That number represents 346 out of a possible 425 votes and makes Willie McCovey only the 16th player to enter the hall in his rookie year of eligibility. But "Stretch" always started fast. The San Francisco Giant first baseman was a Rookie of the Year in 1959. Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. But Yankee Slugger Roger Maris, whose 61 homers in 1961 broke Babe Ruth's immortal record, died last month while ballots were...