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When the Government in October ordered the restrictive fuel allocations that began this month, airline executives set about slicing overhead like so many chefs trimming fat from a steak. They took 1,500 domestic flights from the daily schedule of 13,800. They grounded 275 planes, 16 of them jumbo 747s, from their fleet of 2,400. And they furloughed low-seniority workers from jobs that may never be restored...
...tenants are now barring their windows and doors. Freelance Writer Gretchen Brown wards off burglars as well as Peeping Toms with heavy wooden shutters. When she first moved in, Book Designer Muriel Underwood had to discourage passers-by who tried to enter to buy the spider plants in her jumbo display window. Says she: "They thought that my home was a plant shop...
...aerospace giant faced bankruptcy because of cost overruns on the C-5A transports it was building for the Air Force; the Pentagon eventually let it escape with a $200 million loss. Almost immediately, Lockheed's effort to build the L-1011 TriStar nearly crashed before the jumbo jet ever got off the ground when Rolls-Royce, builder of the plane's engines, went bust, eventually saddling Lockheed with $190 million in unplanned expenses. That time it took an act of Congress (approval of an unprecedented Government guarantee for $250 million in loans) to save Lockheed...
...Cliffe has a 23-16 advantage over Jackson at the half, and a comfortable five-point margin at the three-quarter mark. But Jackson's deft foul shooting during the final five minutes sparked the Jumbo women's squad to a last-minute victory...
...greeted by machine guns and kept under armed guard for five hours. "We are always in trouble," says Dan Danieli, a grocer who practices his best manners on surprised hosts. "We get so humble you wouldn't believe it." Even with unplanned landings, boosters like TWA Jumbo Jet Pilot Robert Buck maintain that soaring is no more hazardous than flying in a commercial airliner...