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Chicago's O'Hare airport, already the most delay-plagued hub in the U.S., may be taking a turn for the worse. The slowdown comes as the result of excessive stress on O'Hare's air-traffic controllers, who committed four errors over five days in late September and early October. In one incident, two United Airlines jets passed within 500 ft. of each other. Blaming a shortage of experienced controllers at O'Hare, the Federal Aviation Administration reduced landings at the airport from 96 an hour to 80 during evening rush hours. Last week the FAA also recommended...
Harvard jumped to a 14-7 lead early in the second quarter. With the score even at 7, Alan Hall punted to Jerome Bledsoe at the 14 yard line. Bledsoe dropped the ball and the Crimson's Ray O'Hare recovered. (After the game, Reid was asked what he had said to Bledsoe when Bledsoe trudged to the sidelines. Reid laughed. "I said, 'Jerome, expletive deleted, expletive deleted, expletive deleted.' Then I said, 'If you do that again, expletive deleted, expletive deleted, expletive deleted...
Because of its central location, Chicago's O'Hare is the busiest and most congested air-travel crossroads on the continent. Serving as a hub for the two largest U.S. carriers, United and American airlines, O'Hare is expected to handle about 57 million passengers and 800,000 flights this year. At peak periods air-traffic controllers direct up to 210 takeoffs and landings an hour. The airport, once an apple orchard (hence the call letters ORD), is functioning at 96% of capacity and has no room to expand because suburbs surround it. Yet air traffic is still growing...
...youthful enthusiasms for boxing and fast cars, his life was completely taken up by his marriage and his art; German shrapnel in his head in World War I must have given him the respect for mortality that few artists get until middle age. Braque was a tortoise, not a hare, and his art had none of Picasso's impetuous virtuosity...
Take a look at your fellow prisoners next time you are stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...