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...shelters and gold, to alma maters and politicians, not to poster children. Jerry's bucks--if the givers who make it on to television to present their checks are any indication--come mostly from people who have sort of made it out, say as far as Everett or Lynn, or--in other parts of the country, where cities are still booming--from places like Orlando and Dallas...
...these Middle Americans are the easiest targets for the companies that enjoy so much advertising from this 21-hour extravaganza. Damn, they'd like to go to a real old-fashioned store, where people knew you and the food was good. But there aren't many of those in Lynn anymore; they've been driven out by the Seven-Elevens and the Hickory Farms--both big telethon friends--where you can find: dirty magazines in a rack by the window; a few objectionable apples; milk and bread; a bored high school kid behind the counter; and lots and lots...
...walkout, PATCO released a report detailing more than two dozen in-flight incidents and claimed there have been more than 150. But the Federal Aviation Administration said there were only eleven "near misses," compared with 31 during the same period in 1980.* Assured FAA Administrator J. Lynn Helms: "We have no reason to believe that the system has deteriorated in safety...
Federal aviation experts?including Lewis, a lawyer and licensed pilot, and FAA Administrator Lynn Helms, former chairman of Piper Aircraft Corp. and an experienced test pilot?insisted that the system was as safe as ever. Noting that traffic was down at the nation's airports, some airline pilots contended that this actually made flying less hazardous than before the strike. At busy airports, like Chicago's O'Hare International, aircraft were required to stay 20 miles behind another plane approaching a landing, rather than the usual five miles; planes taking off had to wait five minutes instead of the normal...
After days of crosscutting between sentiment and starkness, Frank Reynolds of ABC exactly caught television's about-to-change tone on the wedding eve by proclaiming, "It is now fairy-tale time," which would be a "respite from reality." And though the recorded voice of Vera Lynn was summoned up, singing There'll Always Be an England ("If England means as much to you/ As England means to me"), and though NBC'S John Hart took a smarmy look at Lady Di's old school to see how proper English girls got their special "edge...