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Bigger, faster and more efficient than today's planes, the upcoming generation of jumbo jets and supersonic transports will enable airlines to fly the skies more economically than ever. Economies will be hard to come by, however, when such planes are on the ground. Rather than go it alone in footing the bills for servicing and overhauling, Eastern Air Lines and Trans World Airlines embarked last week on a joint project designed to reduce the cost of maintaining their future superjet fleets...
Under the plan, which must be approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board, TWA will handle aircraft maintenance and the training of ground and pilot crews-but not stewardesses-on both airlines' 490-passenger Boeing 747 jumbo jets, due for delivery starting in 1969. Meanwhile, to cut capitalization costs as well as facilitate joint servicing, TWA will work with Boeing to make sure that design specifications on both fleets, covering everything from cockpit layout to cabin color schemes, are the same...
They look big enough to brain the butcher and turn their users into Lilliputians, but jumbo-sized needles, oil inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours or less. "Anyone can use them," says their inventor, Jeanne Damon, 40, a onetime commercial artist, abstract painter and freelance knitwear designer. And if the resulting dresses are practically see-throughs, this is no drawback in the age of the body stocking...
...good idea, she convinced New York's Reynolds Yarns Co. To make hollow inch-wide needles of aluminum. When it turned out that the new needles made it easy to blend up to six yarns at once, she had no trouble in persuading Reynolds to produce "Jumbo Jets" commercially...
First marketed two months ago at $2.95 a pair (or in kits complete with yarn and patterns that cost from $18 to $50), "Jumbo Jets" are being sold in 25 department stores and 1,500 knit shops throughout the nation. Chicago's Marshall Field sold 3,000 pairs of them last month; Gimbel's Pittsburgh store sold 1,200 pairs in a single day. Says Helena Stockwell, owner of the Knit Shop in Highland Park, III.: "They've gotten us a lot of new customers, and old customers who haven't knitted for ages are taking...