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...fare that entitles a traveler to unlimited mileage?from Atlanta to Acapulco, from Seattle to San Juan?for 21 days. A new status symbol among businessmen is to know the unlisted reservations numbers that airlines have for VIP travelers. Laments Delta Air Lines President David Garrett: "We've got 18 different fares just between Atlanta and London, and they have all got to be explained in lengthy phone calls. We just can't keep...
Since Borman outraged U.S. planemakers by buying a European plane, Boeing has led a campaign in Washington against what Treasurer Jack Pierce calls "predatory financing." Indeed, Borman got a good deal, which includes a $250 million loan guaranteed by European government agencies. Somewhat reluctantly, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has agreed to try to meet the European terms by making more of low-interest loans available to foreign buyers of U.S. aircraft...
Even impersonal names stir improbable emotions. Phone clients have continued to howl as Ma Bell has systematically abolished exchange names (Butterfield, Murray Hill) in favor of numbers. When a disease got named for their organization, some American Legionnaires protested as though fearing voodoo-like contamination. Real estate developers act as if they expect fanciful street names to impart class to entire neighborhoods. But should it be assumed that only classical music is played on Symphony Circle in Vienna...
Penelope Russianoff, New York therapist, on the negative reactions she got from her peers after she played a therapist in the film An Unmarried Woman: "So much has happened that I went back to my own analyst after twelve years...
...clubby group: bright children of the '60's who have put their angst to work for fun and profit. Explains Kenney, 31 and a Lampoon-made millionaire: "The Harvard Lampoon was my 'animal house.' I didn't want it to end, so I got Matty to make it a national magazine. Now, as I look back at the past decade, I see a group of about 30 people that I have worked with again and again. I expect to work with them for the next ten years. We were the generation that discovered that alienation...