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Volunteer Baby-Sitter. To get that kind of information, Carlson, 60, a short and trim man, has been in constant motion. He prides himself on putting in only one day a week in Chicago, spending the rest of his time roaming the U.A.L. network from Honolulu to New York. He often turns up at United hangars and airport kitchens, shakes hands with startled baggagemen and quizzes stewardesses about flight service and their complaints. Riding coach recently on a U.A.L. flight, he voluntarily handed over $1.50 to a stewardess who had been worrying whether to charge him for a drink...
...accretion of superfluous middle-and upper-level managers left over from the Trippe era -"the faded aristocracy," as Pan Am Vice President Frank Doyle calls them -has not been noticeably thinned out. In many of its 109 overseas outposts, the line maintains larger staffs than do competitors. In Honolulu, for example, Pan Am has 1,200 employees and United has 1,000 to handle an equal number of flights...
Married. Dick Martin, 49, har-de-har half of television's Rowan and Martin comedy team and Laugh-ln's slathering bachelor-in-residence; and Dolly Read, 24, English Playboy-Bunny-turned-actress; he for the second time, she for the first; in Honolulu...
...massive stroke last winter and was flown to Honolulu, where he got the best treatment that Western medicine can offer. He made a good but partial recovery. Back in Phnom-Penh, he asked for acupuncture. For a month a Taiwanese doctor inserted needles as deep as three inches in Lon Nol's muscles and joints; the patient improved further. Of course, a stroke victim who is fortunate enough to have a good initial recovery usually will continue to progress for a year or two; added benefit from treatment cannot be assessed...
...basic economy class, it costs more to fly one way from New York to Paris ($298) than to Honolulu ($224), even though Honolulu is 1,200 miles farther away. Most businessmen and many tourists are unfairly stuck with those basic economy fares, which cover trips of 14 days or less. To lure more vacationers into their planes, the airlines have come up with a confusing welter of special prices (see box, page 64). All of them are aimed at alleviating the industry's toughest problem; empty seats...