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...Patchwork Fares. What concerns the airlines most is their patchwork domestic-fare structure. Last year 60% of their revenue passengers traveled on one sort of cut-rate fare or another, paying an average of only 4.350 a mile as against 6.750 a mile for travelers who paid full fares. Moreover, discount fares are costly to administer; sometimes they cause serious delays in ticketing and boarding while counter clerks rifle through tariff books in search of a cheaper fare among, for example, the 48 possibilities from New York to San Francisco. CAB recently allowed the carriers a slight curtailment...
...great convulsions of half a century of British history are glimpsed only as they affect the fortunes of this odd family. Seen through the eyes of eight egocentrics, the tapestry of history becomes a patchwork of ironic trivia. But irritation with the Matthews-family idiosyncrasies should not obscure the novel's virtues, which derive from Wilson's expertise in the old-fashioned art of telling a story, crowd management, and letting characters speak in their own voice. The prevailing tone is one of bitchiness, an atmosphere more tolerable and customary in the theater than in fiction. There...
Despite key injuries to sophomore superstars Keith Colburn and Roy Shaw, Harvard has found the depth to field patchwork teams capable of knocking off all competition. In the Greater Boston Championships, for example, four of the top six men couldn't start and a fifth dropped out halfway through. But Peter Dennehy and Frank Sulloway, who had not placed in a race all year, paced the team to victory...
...this patchwork Smith wants to weave a new Roosevelt-like alliance. Over his kitchen table, professors and biochemistry grad students from nearby Tulane exchange political banter with a retired Negro post-office worker, and the white leader of a local labor union. They are all Ben Smith campaign workers. "Roosevelt put together a party of the farmer, the laborer, the intellectual. We're going to get the Negro, the white wroking class, and the intellectuals, and work on issues together...
While Harvard captain Jim Baker is heavily favored for individual honors--his most serious challenger may be M.I.T. sophomore star Wilson--Coach Bill McCurdy will field at best a patchwork outfit...