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...enterprising troop of 71 travelers from Frankenmuth, Mich., chartered a bus to Saginaw, where they boarded a United Airlines flight for the 21-minute, $25 puddle jump to Flint. There they were met by their bus and returned to Frankenmuth. One night last week, 55 travelers plunked down $20 each for the 11:30 p.m. United flight from Akron to Cleveland, a 22-minute trip that normally draws about four paying passengers a week. The attraction was not Cleveland's glamorous night life...
...calculates that the minicatalogue will produce $100,000 to $250,000 in additional sales this Christmas; that will be exceptionally profitable volume, since Bloomingdale's got suppliers to pay nearly all the advertising cost. Already orders are flowing in from Rapid City, S. Dak.; Mitchell, Ind.; Beaver, Okla.; and Saginaw, Mich., among other places far from New York...
...number of collectors began to multiply, Bill Sloan, a rancher from Saginaw, Texas, decided that he could profit from the hobby. He began by selling $5 barbed bracelets, then abandoned that scheme when he received barbed remarks from women with knit dresses. But he has sold 14,000 sets of six swizzle sticks ($12.50) fashioned out of 24-karat, gold-plated barbed wire...
...Saginaw, Mich., the Chicano community has been riven by bloody feuds for a dozen years. There have been at least 20 deaths and more than 100 injuries as factions have competed to control the local drug traffic. Father William Frigo, associate pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in the barrio, said recently, "Many of our vendetta families have no sons left." In the past fortnight he has organized special Masses dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is revered by Mexicans as their protectress. The prayer services for civil peace have attracted overflow crowds, for the time...
...Robert Griffin into greeting the President on his arrival at Tri-City Airport, though neither helped him do any campaigning the rest of the day. Advancemen also had laid out a 57-mile motorcade route that passed through a dozen communities but carefully avoided the main population centers of Saginaw and Bay City, both Democratic strongholds...