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...stoutly denies the criticisms-and so do many controllers. Officials point out that a controller's work is easier than it used to be, thanks to the installation of new computers and a reduction in the number of flights. Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, for example, now handles only 85% of the flights it did before the strike. Many controllers agree that the mood in the towers has actually improved. Says Larry Donald, a controller at Charleston Municipal Airport: "There's more camaraderie...
...work load is tough, and a lot of us are a little tired these days," says a controller at the Aurora Air Traffic Control Center, which clears all planes coming into O'Hare. "But nobody I know has cut a corner, and nobody is too tired to do his job properly." Indeed, FAA officials contend that PATCO diehards, still furious at losing their union status, are intentionally stirring up talk of trouble in the control towers. Obviously, the nation's airports cannot be run indefinitely under present conditions, and the FAA hopes to bring the force of controllers...
...payments to be rescheduled. Braniff's planes are worth an estimated $400 million in the current depressed market for used aircraft, but of even greater value were its landing rights at a number of U.S. airports. Some of those, like the one at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, are worth $1 million each. A Chapter 11 bankruptcy differs from some other kinds of bankruptcies, in which, when all assets are sold off, creditors receive at least part of their money and the company ceases to exist...
...known. They include Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., for example, and Betty Ruth Hollander, holder of five patents in temperature measurement and president and founder of Omega Engineering in Connecticut. Also among the new members: Christie Hefner, 29, a corporate vice president and widely considered the hare apparent of Playboy Enterprises; Investment Adviser Julia Walsh of Julia M Walsh & Sons of Washington, D.C.; Sherry Lansing, president of Twentieth Century-Fox Productions; and Florence Skelly, president of pollsters Yankelovich, Skelly& White...
...pendant became the hare of the dogged, touching off an orgy of literary and literal digging. The Druid ruins at Stonehenge, a popular site for rabbit sleuths, were overrun by spades-people. For 18 months Thomas pondered the problem, buying three copies of Masquerade and throwing two away when his wife complained of puzzle-neglect. He made a breakthrough by linking the inscription under one picture, "One of Six to Eight," to Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Thomas also divined another key clue: a pictorial reference to the vernal equinox indicating an object...