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...other rivals. At the same time, though, the average cost of local service rose by 8%. Customers were befuddled by multipage bills, bewildered about whom to call for repairs and bedeviled by delays in the installation of new telephone lines. Said Jack Reiss, 83, a retired salesman in Harrisburg, Pa.: "I don't know why they broke up Ma Bell, but I wish they would put it back together...
Under a yellow-and-white-striped tent at the Harrisburg (Pa.) International Airport last week, 120 guests of American Airlines, including Miss Pennsylvania, sipped champagne as a band played Happy Days Are Here Again. The occasion was American's bubbly celebration of its new service between Harrisburg and Chicago. The highlight of the festivities was the presentation of a plaque to the first passenger booked on the maiden flight. The winner: Ron Rearick, 43, of Bellevue, Wash., who accepted the award and then gave his hosts a shock that flattened the champagne. He presented surprised officials with a copy...
...flew aboard a twelve-seat turboprop plane from Pittsburgh to Madison, Wis., to Milwaukee to New Orleans. Along the way he delivered five speeches and slept about five hours. Two weeks ago, Jackson made a campaign appearance that ended at 10:30 p.m. in Albany. He then traveled to Harrisburg, Pa., and went to an antinuclear rally from 4 to 6 the next morning, after that attending a meeting of black state legislators...
...front runners, last Monday's schedules were typically tough. Mondale awoke at dawn in Wilkes-Barre and toured a dress factory. He flew to Erie for a runway press conference, then to Pittsburgh for another runway press conference. In Harrisburg, Mondale waited as usual for the press to shuffle out of the 727 ("How many more?" he croaked as the reporters filed by), so that the TV news cameramen could get a clear shot of him disembarking. For the 100 supporters gathered on the tarmac, he recited his routine speech, then climbed back up the ramp. On to Philadelphia...
Many Americans seem to feel dismay over the whole breakup and are irritated by changes that are mainly small but still inconvenient. Says retired Salesman Jack Reiss, 83, of Harrisburg, Pa.: "I don't know why they broke up Ma Bell, but I wish they would put it back together." Concurs Larry Mixon, district manager for Southern Bell in Florida: "Human beings don't like change. They have a problem adjusting...