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Eastern drew chuckles from other airlines six years ago when it put 28 aging, piston-engine Constellations in shuttle service between Boston, New York and Washington. When passengers found they could drop in and fly on a guaranteed-seat, pay-on-the-plane basis, the other lines nearly dropped out of sight. Eastern now has 79% of Boston-New York business, compared with about 18% for Northeast (which is be ginning to phase in jets on the route) and a minuscule 3% for American...
Riding six abreast on the jets replacing Eastern's piston planes, Air-Shuttle passengers get to buy a ticket and read their own newspaper. American's Jet Express, by contrast, offers two-class service, continental breakfast, $1 drinks after 11:30 a.m. and coffee any time - while matching the Shuttle with a $16 tourist fare and 16 daily flights...
...Piston's pleasant little Divertimento, the nine performers gave a cheerful and accurate reading of the outer movements, and put considerable intensity into the lyrical middle movement. Hathaway conducted apparently without a clear understanding of the work. Melodic lines were submerged in the first two movements. The last was more convincing, even if slightly mechanical...
...school at 13, developed an early interest in engines. He opened his own auto repair shop at 22, raced cars, set national speed records, then quit the track at 31 after a serious smashup. Recuperating from his injuries, Honda conceived plans for his own motor company, soon began manufacturing piston rings for autos, naval vessels and planes...
Treasured Junk. Cornell's works were first shown in a New York gallery in 1932, exhibited with constructions by other artists under the general label "Toys for Adults." He has always used the visual vocabulary of surrealist collages: cut-up newspapers, pillboxes, corks, postage stamps, piston rings, things usually dug out of pantry drawers. Much of it is deliberately absurd: witness a board embedded with hand compasses; a cubbyholed compartment with cork balls, alphabet blocks and a seashell; or a case containing 15 shot glasses called Petite Musée. They are all symbols shorn of obvious symbolism, junk...