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...last August, only 406 passed; normally 75% of the trainees graduate from the twelve-to 16-week program. Since then, the entrance exams have been made more stringent, and the FAA claims that now about 65% of those admitted eventually graduate. Officials of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), insist, however, that the real figure...
...little tired these days," says a controller at the Aurora Air Traffic Control Center, which clears all planes coming into O'Hare. "But nobody I know has cut a corner, and nobody is too tired to do his job properly." Indeed, FAA officials contend that PATCO diehards, still furious at losing their union status, are intentionally stirring up talk of trouble in the control towers. Obviously, the nation's airports cannot be run indefinitely under present conditions, and the FAA hopes to bring the force of controllers up to full strength, 13,000, by 1984. Meanwhile, officials point...
...England shut down in October, throwing 400 people out of work. Daniel May, president of Minneapolis-based Republic Airlines, whose pilots and flight attendants have been asked to defer part of their pay to cut costs, cited some of the industry's troubles: "Low fares. The PATCO strike. The recession. High interest rates. They're just killing...
...necks of the trusty reindeer? It's the siren song of the Associated Press, Four bells to tell us we're out of this mess. It seems that King Ronald on horseback proclaimed, "For the stopping of Christmas, I'll never be blamed. From those bad man in PATCO I'll lift my injunction, By gee and by golly--this Xmas will function." So he told David Stockman (on his Trojan steed), "Quick, print up the extra cash that we'll need." Happy that Yuletide by fortune was kissed, We began the long task of preparing our list...
...George Will and John Paul Two, Carl Yasztremski, Mark Ptashne and good Brother Blue, Fritz Mondale, Bobby Brustein, Elvis Costello, (the second will direct, the third play Othello), Michael Manley, Jodie Foster and creative Janet Cooke-- Those names will fill up our big Christmas book. To them (thanks to PATCO) we wish a holiday bright, And to them and to you and to all, a good night...