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...Jumbo Five Loses...
...roar of publicity over such super-commercial airplanes as the SST and Boeing's 747 jumbo jet has largely drowned out the hum of a smaller but still important market. Lured by the economy of jet planes and lifted by their earnings from increased traffic, regional airlines around the U.S. have been moving into the jet age, casting off decrepit DC-3s and aging Convairs, which gave them their start. British Aircraft Corp., with its BAC-111, and both Boeing and Douglas have tapped the regional market with small, fast jet airplanes designed for short runs and shorter runways...
Bikinis Ho. The jet rush is on, and no letup is in sight. The number of passengers through Honolulu airport has more than doubled in six years, and airline executives foresee an even greater escalation after the 490-passenger "Jumbo" Boeing jets start to fly in 1969. Some visitors flying tourist class pay only $100 for the five-hour flight from...
With in-flight movies, martini lunches, champagne dinners and hostesses waking people up to offer eyeshades that might help them sleep more soundly, some passengers feel long-distance air travel is already sybaritic enough. The airlines, however, disagree; already they are turning their minds toward tomorrow's jumbo jets. And in their visions there are many-splendored pleasure domes that even an oil sheik could envy. "Imagine an airliner with a penthouse-with staterooms or offices," glowed two-page American Airlines ads showing interior sketches for its Boeing 747 models last week. "There will be a spiral staircase...
Harvard could not penetrate the Jumbo zone defense, so the game was close for a while. But the Crimson found the best remedy for a zone which prevents driving -- popping from the outside. All the starters were swishing jump shots from the corner, the top of the key, and sometimes further out than that. Ten minutes had gone by before the Crimson worked the ball to the inside for a hook shot by Chris Gallagher...