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...skies around United were far from friendly, as the possibility of a substantial if confusing takeover play developed around the carrier's parent company, which is changing its name later this month from UAL Inc. to Allegis. Whatever happens next, there is no doubt that a passel of problems lies ahead for UAL Chairman Richard Ferris, 54, and his controversial long-term plan to make the company (1986 revenues: $9.2 billion) an integrated travel-and- tourism enterprise...
...roots of the urban experience are exposed in Flossie and the Fox (Dial; $10.89). Patricia C. McKissack's comedy of a girl who has to get a passel of eggs past a predator recalls Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories. "See," says the fox, "I have thick, luxurious fur. Feel for yourself." Returns Flossie, "Ummm. Feels like rabbit fur to me . . . You aine no fox. You a rabbit, all the time trying to fool me." The fox spends so much time trying to convince Flossie that he is nearly undone by a dog, allowing the child to escape with...
Shortly after his capture by Sandinista troops, former U.S. Marine Eugene Hasenfus, 45, the sole survivor of the four-man crew, linked the ill-fated supply mission to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Moreover, a passel of memos, business cards and logbooks found aboard the aircraft produced a trail of American names and phone numbers from California to Washington. The evidence raised an outcry in the capital, and for good reason: any direct American involvement in the Nicaraguan war would violate a ban laid down by Congress...
...were dropped, Zakharov would be put on five years' probation for the third count, provided that he quit the U.S. within 24 hours. Zakharov, like Daniloff, seemed to relish his moment in the media sun. After he left the court, his convoy of cars was followed by a passel of press vehicles that caught up with him at a traffic light, and the reporters shoved microphones toward him through the car window. A smiling Zakharov said in accented but fluent English that he loved the American people and would someday like to return...
...stuck in the mud of middle-class responsibility, yearning not quite hard enough to fly free. She is Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek), who has left Ocean City, Md., to become an ace photojournalist. He is Henry Squires (Kevin Kline), who has inherited his family's newspaper and the usual passel of burdens: wife, child, civic duties. They were lovers once, and become lovers again when she returns home for a vacation. Will he accept her invitation to join her in the jet streams and write her captions? Or is he going to stay put and continue the good fight...