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...Pentagon gets preference on the production lines, and heavy military demand has led to a shortage of jet engines for the civilian market. With delivery delays as long as a month, United, Braniff, Delta, and other lines are planning to postpone new services or make do with piston planes. Two weeks ago, Eastern canceled 5% of its flights "temporarily;" Eastern has enough piston planes for those runs-but, oddly, not enough pilots with sufficient piston training. Promising a "round-the-clock" program to familiarize its jet-age crews with the old planes, Eastern said that it would be back...
...least of the air-fare confusion has been caused by the fact that the airlines, rapidly phasing out piston-driven planes in favor of jets, understandably prefer to charge more for the jet rides. And for a long while the Civil Aeronautics Board permitted them to do just that: there was a well-established average surcharge of 10% for jet travel. But just as understandably, CAB Chairman Charles S. Murphy last summer decided that the airlines were making so much money that, in the public interest, rates ought to go down. The CAB thereupon decreed that there should...
...airlines, there are 49 different fares for a flight between New York and Miami, depending on the passenger's marital status ("family rates"), occupation (members of the clergy and military men fly cheaper), whether he is going first class or by air coach, by jet or by piston, at night or by day. Age has become a particularly significant factor in the cost of air travel: in the last month eight major carriers, including American, which pioneered the plan, have begun offering half-fare service on a standby basis to young people between twelve and 21 who had previously...
...passenger behemoth, proved to be expensive flops. After a disastrous crash, Washington grounded all Constellations, and order cancellations piled on top of rewiring costs. Though Lockheed eventually lost $35 million on commercial sales of the Connie, the plane returned to the air, set speed records for four-engine piston craft that may never be broken, and airlines still fly 455 Constellations in a day when anything that isn't a jet is considered a creep. Again, in 1959, when Lockheed's Electra turboprops began coming apart in midair, the company's sales of passenger planes crashed with...
...second half, Princeton presented Walter Piston's "Carnival Song," which was barely audible over my neighbor's yawns. Not until they resorted to English folksongs about girls and drinking did Princeton find its own level. They sang "The Turtle Dove" and "Swansea Town" spiritedly and winningly. Princeton's only real threat came in the third quarter with a hilarious Lehreresque parody of football cheers, Harvard style. But then they sang that silly song about the tiger that goes wowwww...