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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 24 seasons of competition in the facility named after former Harvard quarterback Donald C. Watson '16, the arctic, dimly-lit, cavernous rink was only a memory. In its place, thanks to a $2.8 million facelift, stood the new Alexander H. Bright Hockey Center...
...State aid: about $250 million, representing various financial schemes now cooking between Chrysler and the seven states where it has major operations. For example, the state of Michigan plans to mortgage Chrysler's Highland Park headquarters for $150 million...
...rising fast; today fuel accounts for about 30% of an airline's operating costs, up from 16% only two years ago. Having earned more than $1 billion in the first nine months of 1978, the industry cleared only $580 million in the same period this year, and all carriers are scrambling to cut costs. TWA has laid off 2,500 employees; and United, which was grounded by a long strike last spring and is now being hurt by passengers cashing in and flying on half-fare coupons, has furloughed 195 pilots and 400 other employees. Braniff has pulled...
...just another rickety one-state airline, linking six Florida cities with half a dozen planes. Today it is an aggressive regional carrier that serves 23 cities, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York, with a fleet of jets. This fiscal year it turned its first real profit: $2.4 million. Says Chairman C. Edward Acker: "Without deregulation we'd still be tiny. It has given us the ability to move fast into markets...
Last week, however, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn told Mays to say goodbye to baseball. Kuhn's edict came after Mays decided to sign a ten-year contract worth more than $1 million with Bally Manufacturing Corp. to make public appearances on behalf of the firm's new Atlantic City casino. Such a close tie with a gambling organization, Kuhn ruled, "is not in the best interests of baseball," and he told Mays that if he works for Bally, he must give up his job with the Mets...