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Among the most successful new regional carriers is Chicago's Midway Airlines, launched last November in the nearly abandoned Midway Airport. The line promoted its proximity to downtown Chicago (eight miles from the Loop, vs. 22 miles for competing O'Hare) with a pair of sexy, ruby red lips and the slogan "Kiss O'Hare Goodbye. Jet Midway Airlines." Many travelers did just that. In its first seven months. Midway flew 190,000 passengers and rang up $7.3 million in revenues...
...prices. A single room or the most modest double starts around $70 to $100 a night, depending on the hotel; suites can go as high as $400 or, in the case of L'Ermitage, $675. But the premium hotels' rates, which seemed Himalayan before inflation began to loop up in the past few years, are no longer out of line with what the better chains charge: an average of about $75 a night for a single at the Hiltons in New York City and Los Angeles...
...company of professional photographers that Sears is using in some of the preliminary judging. Twice a day for a period of about two hours they take their places in front of a table on the sixth floor of an aging warehouse located just north of Chicago's Loop and set to work on candidates in the seven-to-16 boys' category. Spread out before them on a cluttered table are two cardboard boxes, one filled with snapshots still to be examined, the other with pictures that have passed the first test. At their feet is an even larger...
...watches the splashes of color as they flash across the screen. Spotting some possibly ominous patches, he zeroes in on one of the red and yellow areas. Then, fiddling with the controls, he orders up another display, showing tiny arrows circling counterclockwise and swirling ever closer in a tightening loop. After checking the coordinates on a map superimposed on his screen, the operator telephones an alert for the threatened area to the National Weather Service: a tornado may be about to strike...
...about 9 a.m. Saturday and lasted only 20 minutes apiece. No one was injured, and the workers were able to free themselves within an hour. In the Chicago assault, some half-a-dozen terrorists, with white knit scarves around their heads, entered the Carter office in the downtown Loop. Armed with rifles and pistols, they ordered the seven campaign workers, in English: "Cooperate and lie down, and you won't get hurt." The terrorists tied up the workers with clothesline and taped their mouths. One hostage thought that one of the intruders had been a former Carter volunteer...