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...know how small it looks." As an industry at the mercy of both soaring fuel costs (kerosene, which cost 8? to 10? per gal. in the late 1960s, may rise to 70? in the mid-1980s) and scarce capital for new equipment, the airlines must conserve or face ruin. Under Borman's prodding, Eastern has increased its passengers 10.4% while reducing fuel consumption 7.5%. Among the methods: cutting the number of flights, adding seats, and flying at lower speeds. Improvements in subsonic aircraft and engine design promise even greater savings. The energy crisis makes supersonic development hopelessly uneconomic...
...novel's relentless japery is almost sufficient to drown out some bleak thoughts on the state of the urban world. Seen through Wren's eyes, New York City is a ruin in which civility and beauty are relentlessly stamped out. "I suspected that the entire block," he notes, "chosen because it was handsome, had been condemned for demolition and cleared of tenants." Noting that automated garages are replacing the older type, thus putting "churlish" attendants out of work, Wren comments: "One more bit of the inhumane is replaced by the non-human." The author strikes this mordant note...
George H. Berkowitz, owner of Legal Seafoods, said yesterday the permit requirement will "completely ruin" business in the area, adding that the new lot is "merely a token gesture by the city...
Polanski, whose reputation for dating teen-age girls is well known in Hollywood, seemed remarkably unchastened by the impending legal action that could ruin his American career. Three days after his arrest he appeared at a fashionable restaurant accompanied by a girl who looked not a great deal older than the age of consent...
After the wheel was invented, some cave dwellers undoubtedly complained that ruts would ruin the footpaths. Many millenniums later, in the 1840s, farmers of New York's Suffolk County rebelled against another recent invention; they tore up railway tracks, put the torch to depots and caused wrecks by loosening rail ties. The iron horse was evil, they complained; its sparks set fields afire, its bells and noisy clatter shocked cows into withholding milk, and its soot soiled laundry. Decades later, the first autos were denounced for scaring horses and for spewing objectionable fumes...