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...Urban League believes that it has just begun to explore the possibilities of the street academies. Eventually, director Oostdyk hopes to have his all-girl academies sponsored by cosmetics firms, or a Chinatown academy supported by, perhaps, Northwest Orient Airlines. He foresees clusters of street academies surrounding each ghetto public high school, gathering up the dropouts and drawing out their full potential. "The people of the ghetto are very susceptible to change," he says. "You can't stop a bad idea on the streets, but you can't stop a good one either. Here...
Enemy Property. The family involvement ended abruptly in 1928, when John's sons sold their thriving business to Wagons-Lits, the Brussels-based sleeping-car company that ran the Orient Express. After Germany invaded Belgium during World War II, Cook's assets in Britain became enemy property. They were eventually handed over to the four major British railways to manage, and, as a byproduct of the rails' nationalization in 1948, the government took over Thos. Cook...
...Gadfly. Even if Continental doesn't get to fly commercially to the Orient, Six will continue to enjoy his role as gadfly. Six brags that Continental consistently leads the way in aircraft utilization, on-timesmanship and attractive fares. In his latest bit of gadding, he is trying to persuade bigger competitors to cooperate in staggering schedules and uncrowding the skies. "At 9 o'clock in the morning, everybody in the world wants to get on an airplane," complains Six. "Same damned thing at 5 in the afternoon. Sometimes they have 18 planes or more in places like Kennedy...
...know how your father and I love cruises! Remember the gourmet tour of the Orient aboard the S.S. President Cleveland with Alvin Kerr of Gourmet magazine? And that flower-arranging cruise aboard the S.S. Mariposa with Bea Frambach, the president of the American Institute of Floral Designers? And the Photography Cruise? And the Golf Cruise? And as you know, Dad and I love nothing better than those marvelous bridge cruises run by Charles Goren...
...promised its first transpacific routes to the Orient (via Hawaii and Guam), a chance to become a genuine global airline in full competition with Pan Am for the fast-growing round-the-world passenger traffic...