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...Mart of the skies. Midway takes the plain pipe rack approach to flights between Chicago and Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis and Washington. Founder and Chairman Irving Tague, 52, the former head of San Francisco-based Hughes AirWest, got the line aloft by leasing three ten-year-old DC-9 jets from TWA and daubing them with rainbow colors. Uniforms for flight attendants came off the peg rather than being designer-made. No meals are served aloft, yet drinks are a bargain at $1 each. Midway's nonunionized ticket agents cheerfully help load bags or straighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aerial Dogfight | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

Whether they are pushing Perrier, Poland Spring or 20 plain, the highly competitive purveyors of bottled water rarely miss a trick. Now A.J. Canfield Co. has a new client for its bottled Natural Seltzer Water. Reads the back of the label: "An excellent water for all house-plants." In a chorus of ads on Midwestern television and radio stations, Canfield proclaims the wonders of Natural Seltzer when administered to a patient like that limping rubber tree in the corner. Rhapsodizes Vice President Alan Canfield Jr.: "When you water plants with our product, you're giving them food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pep for Plants | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...benefits too. It is not all altruism on our part. Israel represents the one stable democracy sharing values with us in that part of the world, and they have a proven military capability that stands as a deterrent to further disruption and chaos. I think we should make it plain that we are going to keep our commitment to the continued existence of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Interview with Reagan | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

Humbug to all these highfalutin scientific explanations of the eruption! With all the pollution we've caused, the good ole earth just plain vomited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Random Winds, Plain (2 last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Bestsellers | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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