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...same time that smaller carriers are expanding their point-to-point runs, many regional lines have begun augmenting their so-called hub-and-spoke operations, self-contained little networks, with longer-haul service. Larger carriers, meanwhile, are developing new hub-and-spoke systems too. Such operations allow the lines to increase revenues by gathering passengers through the spokes, then flying them longer distances...
...Houston somehow wins tomorrow night, the series will move back to the Hub for a Saturday finale; if the Celtics wrap it up, they'll come home to an airport reception with one more flag to hang in the rafters...
...plays Lee Winters, a former film star and the widowed heiress to a petrochemical empire. He portrays Hub Smith, a gutsy, maverick banker and corporate troubleshooter. Together they embark on a daring financial scheme with, you guessed it, international repercussions. The plot for the film Rollover, due to be released in December, is made even more intriguing by the presence of Co-Stars Jane Fonda (The China Syndrome, Coming Home) and Kris Kristofferson (A Star Is Born; and this week's re-released Heaven's Gate), who do not ordinarily play corporate types. Still, the actress came prepared...
While many other airlines have been engaging in cutthroat fare warfare for popular routes between New York and the West Coast, Delta has continued concentrating on its profitable "hub and spoke" system. The airline's planes collect passengers in outlying Southern cities, such as Macon, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn., feed them into the "hub" airport at Atlanta, then send them out on longer-haul "spoke" flights to New York or Denver. Says Delta President David C. Garrett Jr.: "We are cautious, and our system is well balanced. During the winter, we make money on our North-South routes; during...
...nine in the morning on a raw November day, Soldiers Field stretches out like a remote desert, seemingly much farther than its actual distance from the hub-bub of rush-hour Harvard Square. Inside Dillon Field House, the citadel of Crimson athletics, everything moves at a calm, leisurely pace, but the air is full of energy being stored. And under the bright lights of the training room, amid the smell of bandages, tape and salve, Jack Fadden is at work. He tapes and talks, talks and tapes, massaging his patients' bodies and minds. Jack Fadden has been doing the same...