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...going to create a new kind of vacationer," says a Midwestern tour operator. Agrees a Boston holiday wholesaler: "This is the future of travel for the masses." The development that has injected such enthusiasm into the recession-hit tourist business is known in industry jabberwocky as O.T.C., meaning one-stop inclusive tour charter. For the tourist, the initials could well stand for OffToCamelot...
...hours, with stopovers in Chicago, Miami, San Juan, Kingston and often Barbados. An O.T.C. trip cuts it to four hours-in addition to the savings in cash. Milwaukee's Odyssey Travel is chartering Pan Am flights nonstop to the Caribbean from Des Moines, Indianapolis, St. Louis and other Midwestern cities. Marvin Smith, vice president of Boston's American International Travel Service Inc., estimates that more than 30% of O.T.C. tourists have rarely strayed more than 500 miles from home and have never taken a vacation by air before. As Jens Jurgen, a Long Island travel writer, observes, "This...
Twyla Tharp has been seriously watching movies starting from the tune that she worked as a carhop in drive-in theaters owned by her parents. A native of Indiana, she was named after a Midwestern pig-calling contestant known as Twila. "My mother thought Twyla would look good on a theater marquee," explains Tharp. Her ambitious mother also laid out a marathon course of piano, violin, viola, drum, baton-twirling, ballet and tap-dancing lessons that occupied Tharp's childhood. It all paid...
...like many a middleaged, Middle American couple, Betty and Jerry Ford welcomed the New Year by sitting at home in front of their television set, sipping champagne and swaying gently to the mellow music of Guy Lombardo. On New Year's Day, the Fords invited some of their Midwestern friends -Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, Wisconsin's John Byrne and Melvin Laird, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor and their wives-to a White House dinner. The point of the informal gathering was to watch Ford's alma mater, the University of Michigan, uphold the Midwest's football...
...Oregon, 1,400 out of 2,000 refugees are on welfare. More than 40% of those who have managed to find jobs are earning less than $2,500 a year, and nearly 70% are earning less than $5,000. Says Richard Friedman, regional director of HEW for six Midwestern states: "Within a year or so, I expect we'll see these people begin to move up the economic ladder. They are a very intelligent, resilient, resourceful people." Many now work as filling-station attendants, messengers or office clerks. Tran Dinh Chi was once principal of a Saigon high school...