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Like the Brooklyn high school student who covered every mile of the New York subway system in twenty-four hours, Harvard senior Ravi Rikhye couldn't let well enough alone. This weekend, on a $25 Mohawk Airlines "Weekends Unlimited" pass, Rikhye flew 8400 miles in 36 hours, setting a record that will probably go unchallenged...
...seats for spacious first-class accommodations on all its New York-San Juan flights so as to squeeze aboard 200 more people a day each way. American halved service between New York, Syracuse and Rochester in order to add nine flights a day between New York, Cleveland and Washington. Mohawk Airlines stepped up its schedules where American cut back...
...wife. Both politician and wife are now dead, he of syphilis and she of the results of crawling into the bottom of an elevator shaft and waiting for someone to press the down button. The antihero, left alone with his nausea, distracts himself by recreating the career of a Mohawk Indian saint named Catherine Tekakwitha. "Catherine Tekakwitha," he maunders, "who are you? Are you (1656-1680)? Is that enough? Are you the Iroquois Virgin? Can I love you in my own way? I am better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your does...
...ultimate symbol of Brooklyn's disinstitutionalization is the virtual disappearance of The Accent, that ebullient glottal goulash of old Dutch, Yiddish, Irish, Italian and perhaps even Mohawk. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Speech Professor Bernard Barrow of Brooklyn College. "It is very difficult today to know a Brooklyn boy from a Bronx boy." Even The Bridge has lost its mystique. Not for three years, at least, the police report somewhat sadly, has a con man tried to sell...
...traditional "snow belt." Syracuse measured 53 in. of snow, Rochester 28.4. Oswego (pop. 23,000), a port city on Lake Ontario, was hit with 101.5 in. Huge, 30-ft. drifts blocked Oswego's main streets. In Syracuse, 40 office girls were trapped for more than two days in Mohawk Airlines offices. In Rochester, a nuptial dinner lasted for three days when wedding guests were snowed in at Temple Beth...