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...battles are bound to be fierce. Says Mark Daugherty, who follows the airline industry for the Dean Witter Reynolds investment firm: "People Express is about to test its pain threshold. Cracking these markets is not going to be easy if American and Delta play rough." During the past several years Delta has successfully squelched United's attempts to expand its Atlanta business. "We have been developing this market for 41 years," says a Delta spokesman. Both American and Delta have already matched People's fares, although they have imposed certain restrictions. Moreover, they offer frequent-flyer bonus programs, while People...
...first, Fields' car was merely plastered with plastic warning stickers and towed twice. Then things got rough. Over a three-month period, he was suspended by Ford seven times, culminating in a 30-day stretch off the job. Each time he filed a grievance, but his union failed to back him. Finally, last week Fields was fired. The company told him he could return with full seniority and pension rights, but only if he parked in the back lot or bought a domestic car within 60 days...
...landing. And as the space shuttle Challenger touched down last week on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in 95° heat, kicking up petticoats of dust, a flight that had begun in near disaster ended in triumph. Declared Mission Manager Roy Lester: "Even with a rough start, we achieved excellent science...
...migrant farm family at a tent encampment, a dead German soldier on the road to Rome, the rough justice meted out to Nazi collaborators in France. These stinging images have become a first route of approach to understanding our era. Mydans' work also encompasses the famous faces of the age: Churchill, Truman, Nehru, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann and Ezra Pound. He caught them with an economy that satisfies the requirements of design and psychology in the same camera angle, as when he found the egg-shaped perimeter of Nikita Khrushchev's head sweeping to a comic climax in the dark...
...start in the bordellos of Buenos Aires a century ago and even today seems almost shocking in its arrant sensuality. "The tango expresses something deep in our personalities," says Héctor Orezzoli, who conceived the revue along with his friend Claudio Segovia. "The dance is tortuous, complicated, intricate, mysterious, rough, but also sophisticated and full of humor and irony...