Word: oriental
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...airline industry these days resembles an executive-suite version of The Matchmaker. Pan Am is flirting with Eastern Airlines and has an eye on Braniff. Northwest Orient last week won permission to take ailing Northeast for better or worse but lost the dowry it had expected. The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that Northeast's Miami-Los Angeles route was not part of the arrangement-which consequently could fall through. Meanwhile, American and Continental were both vying for Kirk Kerkorian's Western Airlines, and American took over Trans-Caribbean, which flies between the East Coast and some Caribbean points...
...often needs company-and 1970 was a miserable year. Pan Am and seven of the eleven domestic trunk lines lost a total of at least $125 million during the year. The nine regional airlines collectively lost another $50 million. Only four big lines-Eastern, Continental, Delta and Northwest Orient-showed a profit, mostly because they had the good luck to have busy routes, and made the most efficient use of their planes. Airmen argue that mergers will increase efficiency and reduce costs, and the Nixon Administration seems favorably disposed to the aerial matchmaking...
Bathed in the Orient's gleam...
...says, "so unlike the kind of Hollywood film making I detested. Playing the part of a lesbian was the kind of rebellious gesture I enjoyed then." She is equally candid about her attitude toward later roles. She chose Sand Pebbles primarily because she wanted to go to the Orient, and confesses: "If I'm hard to take now, I must have been unbearable then. I had this tremendous disdain for my profession and this huge arrogance." She airily admits that she agreed to a role in that $10 million bomb, The Adventurers, "purely for money." She adds: "Selling...
...first by the Eisenhower Administration and later granted on a permanent basis under pressure from President Kennedy and House Speaker John McCormack. What previously was a profitable route for two airlines became unprofitable for three, and the weakest, Northeast, is in the process of being taken over by Northwest Orient...