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With the ink barely dry on the 1977 brochures, the outlook for spring/summer air travel is becoming clear. Flying is in for a big boost. One major reason: the new ticketing arrangement called Advance Booking Charters, which enables passengers to get low-cost round-trip air transportation with fewer restrictions than on any of the previous charter plans. Authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board last October, ABCs are now being pushed aggressively by both scheduled and nonscheduled airlines, notably by Britain's ebullient charter operator Freddie Laker...
...become the self-proclaimed St. George of cheap transatlantic air travel. His $70 million fleet of ten planes-including three 345-passenger McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jumbo trijets-is painted in the red, white and black colors of his racing stud farm. The planes now work mainly on low-cost charters, including Advance Booking Charters, which Laker helped pioneer. But his No. 1 priority -or threat, as heads of the scheduled airlines would put it-is Skytrain, his proposed cheap ($135 one way), no-frills transatlantic air shuttle service...
Last week a five-man majority of the U.S. Supreme Court rejected that argument. The court ruled that it was not necessarily unconstitutional for a suburb to refuse to change zoning restrictions that in effect bar racially integrated low-cost housing projects. Said Justice Lewis Powell for the majority: "Official action will not be held unconstitutional solely because it results in a racially disproportionate impact . . . Proof of racially discriminatory intent or purpose is required to show a violation of the equal protection clause." The court found no such intent...
...Mostly low-cost housing...
...wordings (see box), the Good News Bible, published this week by the American Bible Society, turns Holy Writ into modern, everyday English. In doing so, the new translation continues one of the great success stories in publishing history. Until the late 1950s, the Bible Society limited itself to distributing low-cost editions of traditional translations. Then it decided to prepare its own Bible, beginning with a New Testament, aimed at roughly a high school reading level...