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Despite the farmers' demonstration, the agricultural ministers refused to reverse the trends. After three days of talks, including a final, nonstop, 25-hour session, the ministers granted only an average 4% increase on farm products, hardly enough to keep the farmers abreast of inflation. More important, the ministers accepted the plan put forward by E.E.C...
...flight of 680 miles nonstop from Chicago to Hornell was one of the most remarkable ever recorded, in consideration of the day and age. The landing and my subsequent first view of any airplane inspired me to become a pilot one day. That this has never come to pass is evidenced by my signature...
...Medical Center, yielding to a dozen petitions from Dr. Hendrie, has operated since 1962 a part-time residency in pediatrics, women's favorite specialty. New York Medical College has pioneered a flexible graduate training program for women residents in psychiatry. Instead of being bound to the usual nonstop 36-month residency, physician-mothers at N.Y.M.C. break their training into four nine-month periods. The program, which allows the women to spend evenings, most weekends and holidays with their families, has proved both popular and productive. In seven years, not one of the 48 women enrolled has had to drop...
While railroads and some airlines are dropping short-haul routes, Kerrigan plans to pile on more nonstop runs of 200 to 300 miles. In a "Greyhound Savings Time" ad campaign, the line is stressing the difference in fares between air and bus travel. It notes that a round-trip ticket between Chicago and Detroit is $27 cheaper by bus than by air. Other sample savings: $17 between Sacramento and San Francisco, and $25 between New York and Washington...
Greyhound also wants to bring more affluent passengers to the bus. Kerrigan is expanding a VIP service, which at some terminals enables riders to check their baggage at the ticket counter, leave their coats with a steward, travel nonstop for up to 200 miles and arrive at their destination with nearly the speed of air travel (counting the drive to and from the airport). To save suburbanites the trouble of traveling into the city to catch a bus, Greyhound built satellite terminals near mass transit systems on the edges of Chicago and Cleveland-an idea that it plans to extend...