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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...
...days. The crusade's headquarters in the El Bohio Café on Bergenline Avenue is jammed with refugees, who get $50 and all the food and clothes they need. Volunteers take pledges over the phone for jobs, supplies and lodging. One merchant sends over a rack of new clothing, another offers jobs. "The reaction has been overwhelming," says Rodriguez. "We are taking care of these refugees. The Federal Government is not involved...
Dazzling footwork coupled with outstanding standing stickwork gives Predun a basis on which to out-finesse his opponents. Not a particularly hard shooter, he relies instead on shot placement to rack up the goals...
...James Beard, as well as Jacques Pépin, 44, onetime chef for Charles de Gaulle. Pépin's book, La Methode, won the grand prize. Gathering to receive their awards, the three pitched into a mélange of asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, tomatoes, eggs and rack of baby lamb. What was it such eminent cuisiniers prepared as the camera recorded each deft whip and slice? "A mess," confessed Pépin, doffing his apron and sitting down to tomato bisque, piccata of veal, and pommes parisiennes, with a '78 Widmer Cayuga, all done by someone...
...split, but like everything else all year, this team did it the hard way. Not content to rack the Cadets' inferior pitchers in the first game and then submit meekly to all-league twirler Craig Jones in the nightcap, the Crimson kept the good-sized Soldiers Field crowd around until the end, finally doing away with Jones using that rarest of of weapons in the Harvard arsenal, the longball...