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After interviewing more than 40 skyjackers, Dallas Psychiatrist David G. Hubbard produced a prototypical profile of an insecure, effeminate loner who has probably never seduced a woman. Heinrich VonGeorge, 45, the man who hijacked a Mohawk Airlines propjet last week, scarcely fits that pattern. His motive was not an escape compulsion or an aberrant drive for momentary fame. It was a simple, brutal act of financial desperation...
This year, in a move designed to reduce athletic department costs, the football, soccer, and cross country teams will be flying to Cornell on a single chartered Mohawk airlines...
...airlines resorted to a wide-ranging exploration of merger possibilities-the classic, though not always successful industry device for rescuing the flounderers. Some carriers have already reached merger agreements. Currently pending before the Civil Aeronautics Board are three proposed consolidations that could strongly affect the industry's structure: Mohawk with Allegheny, Northeast with Delta and, by far the largest and most important, American with Western. The American-Western merger would join the second-and eighth-biggest domestic carriers...
Died. Robert E. Peach, 51, former head of Mohawk Airlines; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Clinton, N.Y. A World War II Navy bomber pilot who won two Distinguished Flying Crosses. Peach joined tiny Robinson Airlines (three planes) in 1945. After Robinson changed its name to Mohawk, he was elected president, and later board chairman. The driving force behind Mohawk's rapid rise to become the nation's 4th largest regional carrier. Peach was also the first president of a U.S. scheduled airline to hire a black stewardess...
...issue is not settled soon, Mohawk could go out of business. Last week the line announced that it would seek to "restructure" its debts and obtain "modifications" of some $3,000,000 in various interest and note payments due in January. It has already deferred a Dec. 1 interest payment on a note of $10 million. "We'll make it," says Mohawk's Stephenson, who has taken a 75% salary cut -to $15,000 a year-for the duration. "We won't go under." Yet the two sides are so far apart that no one expects...