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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If ABC does get Macmillan, all three U.S. networks will have big stakes in book publishing. But their three-sided literary competition may not last long. CBS, which owns Holt, Rinehart and Winston and the Fawcett and Popular Library paperback houses, seems content with its acquisitions. But, in an apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mork vs. Barbie | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

The airline has a good safety record, but passengers' beefs range from cavalier treatment by some of the company's 650 employees-augmented in the peak season by 100 often inexperienced summer employees-to the quirky booking system. Reservations made through other airlines often are not entered in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flying Low in New England | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

The airline cannot be blamed for the fog that frequently socks in Nantucket and the Vineyard. But when weather trouble seems likely, passengers are given little cards bearing a macabre and somewhat existential warning: DESTINATION DOUBTFUL. This relieves the airline of any obligation to put people up in a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flying Low in New England | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Air New England's planes may make as many as 18 departures a day. Result: even if the weather is benign and the engines work fine, the routine delays of ten or 15 minutes that occur at each stop can make a plane one or even two hours late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Flying Low in New England | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Carefully sheltered by her mother Jeanne, who works at a nearby tennis club, and her father George, a nuclear physicist, Tracy typically alternates a week on the tennis tour with two weeks of schoolwork and practice. That regimen allows for plenty of tournament play and an A average as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: She's Not a Kid Any More | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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