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...year-old brass bell rang out from the bow. Music from the world's largest steam calliope floated to the shore, where hundreds of spectators gathered to watch. A flotilla of small craft escorted the shining white steamer under the Cincinnati Suspension Bridge as it headed for Louisville at the start of its leisurely journey to New Orleans and back...
...tune of When the Saints Go Marching In. In the swelling parade came cheerleaders leading parochial-school bands, chanting Pueblo Indians in full feathered regalia and flag-waving marchers representing each of Pennsylvania's 1,486 Roman Catholic parishes. The 41st International Eucharistic Congress, one of the largest religious spectacles in U.S. history, was under...
...higher second-quarter results: increased fares (up 18% domestically in 2½ years); fuel costs that, while high, have remained relatively stable; and a rise in traffic of 8% to 10%. A 16% increase in travel to Hawaii in early July will probably help move United Airlines, the largest carrier, into the black for 1976, although recovery from a strike last December still kept the line in the red for the first half...
...Schedule. There are rumors that Rockefeller's job is at stake. Supposedly, a few disenchanted Chase directors have sounded out potential candidates for the chairmanship. Two of the leading possible replacements: Donald Regan, chairman of Merrill Lynch, the nation's largest brokerage house, and Thomas Wilcox, chairman of Crocker National Bank (national ranking: 15th). Publicly, however, the directors join ranks behind Rockefeller. For his part, Rockefeller insists that he has no intention of stepping down until he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 in four more years. "We've gone through some difficult times," he concedes...
Anyone who wants to feel oppressed by the English language will never be disappointed. With a vocabulary of some 750,000 words-the world's largest and richest-the language of Shakespeare and Spiro Agnew provides enough terms to offend almost everybody. Those most recently and publicly irked are the feminists. The mother tongue, as they have argued for some time, is a lexicon of male chauvinism. For years the language has evolved along the lines preferred by the male-controlled society that used...