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After attacks by Senator John McCain and others, this brand of combat was chased into the hinterlands and banned by court after court. Then, in 2001, Frank Fertitta III and his brother Lorenzo, entrepreneurs in the Las Vegas casino business, bought the tarnished name Ultimate Fighting Championship and rehabilitated the sport. Or, rather, remade it. Technically called mixed martial arts, ultimate fighting was given a set of rules (no more head butting) and a streamlined synthesis of fighting styles (so long, one-glove boxing!) rather than the old chop suey of contending martial-arts schools. A doctor was stationed...
...matter what eventually happens to People Express, it has changed the airline industry forever. Burr, Lorenzo and other discounters proved that there was a huge untapped market for low-cost air travel. They have met the needs of millions of Americans. Says Venice Gorman, 31, a New York City hospital worker who flew on People to see her parents in Norfolk: "Before People Express, I used to stay home and call my relatives on the phone. Now I can visit in person...
Buying Frontier puts People Express in a nose-to-nose confrontation with Continental, which has an important base in Denver. It pits Burr against a former colleague turned rival: Frank Lorenzo, the chairman of Continental's parent company, Texas Air. In the 1970s, before leaving to found People Express, Burr was Lorenzo's second in command at what was then called Texas International. The two men were once very close friends, but they now have colliding ambitions...
Eastern Airlines' labor leaders were none too pleased three months ago when their company agreed to merge with Texas Air. Reason: Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo has earned a reputation as a fierce foe of unions. Now it appears that Eastern's workers may be maneuvering to foil the deal. Union representatives have been meeting with Jay Pritzker, a Chicago financier who controls Braniff Airlines and the Hyatt hotel chain. Pritzker is said to be considering a bid for Eastern in return for wage concessions from the workers. Texas Air controls 51% of Eastern stock, but Pritzker could conceivably make...
When it comes to wielding a pair of scissors?as tailors or barbers?Italians rank among the world's finest. And there's no more elegant setting for a haircut than Genoa's Barbieria Giacalone, a tiny, three-chair gem squeezed into the city's oldest quarter near St. Lorenzo cathedral. Its eponymous founder, Archimede Giacalone, established his 10-sq-m premises in 1882 to serve sailors traveling through the city's busy port...