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Last week, in fact, thousands of hardy Americans drove to national forests in the Rocky Mountain States to cut down their own trees, for a nominal $1 fee, and haul them home for their families. In retail stores, shoppers were in an all-out buying mood, sending nationwide sales in the first week of December 20% above the previous week's figure and 7% above last year's at the same time...
...best hope of the regionals to gain altitude financially lies in the desire of the majors to get out of the short-haul business. Says Bonanza's Converse: "As the trunks turn increasingly to faster jets and longer routes, we'll come up right under them and take over the short-haul market...
Ferris said yesterday that the decision to buy a new organ was made when he discovered it would take $35,000 to over-haul the 33-year-old organ now in use. He said, further, that the old organ had "never been satisfactory," and that it will cost half as much to maintain...
...than doubled-thanks in part to tourism, which this year grossed some $90 million. There are dark spots in this sunny picture-some 100,000 young Greeks have emigrated to West Germany to find jobs, and poverty retains its grip on primitive mountain villages. Street peddlers in Athens still haul sponges, bananas and chestnuts-but they now walk beneath glittering neon signs that reveal the internationalization of an increasingly modern economy: IBM, Siemens, Haig & Haig, Diners Club...
Died. Michael John Lithgow, 43, ace test pilot for British Aircraft Corp., onetime holder of the world speed record (737.3 m.p.h. in 1953); in a test-flight crash, with six other top British flyers and engineers, of the prototype BAG One-Eleven, the free world's first short-haul jetliner; near Chicklade, Wiltshire...