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Unknown artists have always produced masterpieces. If we do not want to recognize the greatness of their works, that is our weakness. Harriet Moser Houston...
...families has become an acute financial problem for the Chinese. Turkey assigns its birth control clinics to the Department of Labor, believing that a lower birth rate will mean fewer unemployed in future generations. The Egyptian government includes family planning in its Department of Family Health. Jules F. Rosenbaum Houston...
...base to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other Florida cities for $69, to Los Angeles and San Francisco for $99, to Minneapolis for $49 and to Greensboro or Raleigh, N.C., for $29. By changing planes in Newark, People Express customers can fly from Chicago to Florida or from Boston to Houston for $99. People's biggest bargain of all is a nonstop flight from San Francisco to Brussels...
...carriers and set their own prices. About 100 airlines now fly interstate routes, compared with 36 in 1978. In addition to People Express, many other new entries have had impressive takeoffs. New York Air is growing rapidly along the East Coast, Muse Air is doing well from its Houston base, and Jet America is carving out a niche with flights between California and the Midwest. Many others, though, have failed. After expanding too swiftly, Air Florida filed for bankruptcy in 1984 and then merged with Chicago's Midway Airlines. The casualties of competitive battles in the past two years have...
...eleven marathons, including New York City's. His best performance on the 26.2-mile course: 3:40:42. That poses no threat to champion runners, but rival airline bosses might worry about what Burr is thinking on those long hauls. It was during a jog one morning in Houston that Burr came up with the concept for People Express. --By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Frederick Ungeheuer/New York