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...mayhem to the uninitiated, the game is a series of carefully planned plays, defenses and counter-attacks. Often, when playing a less talented and organized team like B.C., a superior team will get off its game and start to play down to the opponent's level of skill...
...directors hired Acker, believing that his skill at turning Air Florida from a small intrastate carrier into a profitable, regional airline was just what Pan Am needed. Acker swiftly integrated the staffs of Pan Am and National and restructured the airline's routes, dropping some cities but adding 24 more. He got rid of money-losing air freighters and put fuel-efficient Boeing 737s on flights in Europe. Pan Am's remaining 28,000 employees (vs. 36,000 in 1980) were persuaded to take a 10% pay cut. Meanwhile, the airline poured $25 million into upgrading its fleet...
SHUTLZ'S fall from grace has been much less obvious or dramatic, but in many ways much more interesting. After all, Weinberger, for all his supposed bureaucratic skills, was still known, was skill known as a hard-liner on defense. But Shultz was real giant-killer, the man waiting in the wings all during Haig's failed vicarship, ready to restore cool, business-like leadership to an aggressive U.S. foreign policy...
...protagonist. Harry, is a construction crane operator who gets ill and consequently, tired. A man who had always been proud of his self-sufficiency and skill on the job, he does not make the descent into economic obsolescence gracefully. Faced with the ignominy of pleading for jobs at a string of recession-time construction sites, he is left with no alternatives but to work as a night-watchman, or to accept a job with his brother, a small-time merchant, benevolent and argyle-sweatered, still hoping that there are fortunes to be made in "surplus" Harry cannot resign himself...
Trillin writes with skill and economy. He plays fair and never invents quotes or deals in the shabbiness of composite characters. He never claims too much for his conundrums and does not speculate for half a sentence too long about where the truth may lie. A single reservation is in the matter of scale. In The New Yorker, these articles seemed exhaustive; in the book, some of them are disappointingly brief. The same illusion of time slowed and prose made denser is observable in even the best of the magazine's longer fact articles, which can seem interminable when...