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...will have to make up its mind what help, if any, it is prepared to extend to Pan Am and the other major U.S. international airline, TWA (which lost $86.8 million in the first half of 1975). One senior Pan Am executive has constructed what he calls a "prayer mat": a graph that contrasts the lavish government benefits received by foreign airlines with the absence of any special assistance...
...will soon be laying the prayer mat before Administration and congressional investigators. Secretary of Transportation William Coleman has ordered a study of Pan Am and TWA to consider all possible solutions. Among them: federal subsidy (which the two lines were denied last year), a forced TWA-Pan Am merger, or dismemberment of Pan Am and allocation of its foreign routes among domestic U.S. carriers...
...Metropolitan Opera to join her fellow Greeks in the grim doings of Rossini's The Siege of Corinth. Looking slender and vulnerable in a long blue gown, Sills moved down a small set of stairs, but never had a chance to sing her opening line, "Che mat sento?"(What do I hear?). She knew what she heard-a minute-long roar of welcome not experienced at the Met since the debut of Joan Sutherland in 1961. That was only the beginning. After Sills' showpiece aria "Si ferite, " the house went wild for 4½ minutes. At evening...
...first time in his career, he could afford to train full time. He spent eight weeks near the Catskill Mountains under the watchful eyes of his amiably foul-mouthed manager, Al Braverman, and his trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free shave. Prophesied Trainer Prezant: "This will be the biggest surprise in boxing." And Wepner...
After a Harvard loss at 134, captain Carl Biello look to the mat to help fill in the injury hampered middle weight divisions. Biello, competing despite a neck injury that has kept him a spectatoe for over a month turned in a surprising 9-3 victory to even the match...