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Penn's head coach Jim Tuppeny was formerly an assistant to Villanova's Jumbo Elliott...
They are not yet taking out ads, but some airline executives are earnestly trying to get rid of a number of their jumbo jets. In an industry that is just beginning to turn the corner to profitability, the big bird has become something of an albatross...
...exuberant, the lines find it hard to fill enough seats on the big plane to make money on some routes. To lure passengers, several lines are removing some of the vacant seats and replacing them with bars, pianos and lounges. TWA, for example, has cut its capacity on a jumbo from 342 to 318 seats. Many lines seem to prefer the new tri-jet Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011. Both have a shorter range than the 747, but they are cheaper to buy and have about 100 fewer seats. Ten of the nation's dozen major scheduled...
...Inch Pinch. Shrimp lovers in America are not the worst hurt victims of price rise. Japanese consumers are paying dearly for their crush on crustaceans: up to 58? each for jumbo six-inchers. Yet sales are increasing by 20% a year, partly because Japanese personal incomes have been rising...
...profits of many U.S. companies and create more jobs in industries concerned with foreign trade. The prospects: U.S. EXPORTS will drop in price around the world. The Boeing Co. figures that devaluations and revaluations could knock the equivalent of $2.5 million off the $25 million cost of a 747 jumbo jet to some foreign airlines. F.S. Holway, president of the Coal Exporters Association of the U.S., calculates that an 8% devaluation would have the same effect as a price cut from $14 to $13 a ton on coking coal sold to Japanese steel mills. The actual effect would be even...