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...forced many motorists to take to the skies for long trips. Airlines have used the energy crisis as an excuse to drop hundreds of unprofitable flights, and have been allowed to raise fares 5% to help cover higher costs. Last week the CAB put the finishing touch on that pleasant scenario: it ordered its long-awaited restructuring of fares, but the net effect for most lines should be a slight gain in revenue...
...Bloom with careful hand recomposed his wet shirt. O Lord, that little limping devil. Begins to feel cold and clammy. After effect not pleasant. Still you have to get rid of it someway. They don't care. Complimented perhaps...
Returning home to the plaudits of his countrymen, Onoda accepted his new-found celebrity with philosophical calm. What had been his toughest experience? "To have lost my comrades-in-arms." And the most pleasant experience? "Nothing-nothing pleasant happened to me through all these 29 years." Still, he was not quite willing to admit that it had all been in vain. "My country today is rich and great," he said. "When my purpose in the war has been attained, in the fact that Japan today is rich and great, to have won or lost the war is entirely beside...
Taxes on the gold producers are expected to net the government $328 million this year, just about double 1973 receipts. How to spend the new wealth has become a pleasant issue in the campaign for the parliamentary elections on April 24. The ruling Nationalist Party pledges to consider improving the country's schools, hospitals and food subsidies; it also hints at income tax cuts. The opposition Progressive Party would use the money instead to build up the tribal homelands where blacks are being relocated...
...Memorial Church since 1972, speaks in just this way, in a deep, comfortable New England-with-a-trace-of-Europe accent. As he preaches, jarring his listeners with references to the desperation of Steve McQueen in Papillon or the decadence of Holiday and Ramada Inns littering the countryside, his pleasant voice seems ready to burst at any moment into joyful music. And, in any Gomes service, it frequently yields to the temptation. Though he once wanted little from churches besides the music, Reverend Gomes has emerged as the right man for Memorial Church in a troubled era that seems...