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...biggest problem is the airport's vaunted Airtrans, a 13-mile computer-controlled system of tracked trams designed to transport passengers around the terminal perimeter. Because the system was apparently oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip stations or fail to open doors after stopping, while passengers inside bang on the windows to get out and those waiting to board bang on the glass to get in. Houston Industrialist Howard Purvis says that he was recently trapped aboard Airtrans "for two complete circuits. Finally, I got off close...
...Dance in Manhattan recently enrolled two new pupils: Woody Allen and his Sleeper co-star Diane Keaton. So far, they have attended a couple of 90-minute sessions where, according to Diane, "there's a lot of floor work and exercises, then for the last half hour we skip and leap." The Graham staff's powers are being fully tested by Woody, who in a preliminary workout had trouble lining up his knees for a simple "stand-up-straight" exercise. With becoming bashfulness, Woody refuses to boast about his latest achievement. His spokesman simply says: "All Woody will...
...began thunderously. Franklin New York Corp., the holding company for the nation's 20th largest commercial bank (assets: nearly $5 billion), announced that it would skip its quarterly dividend because earnings in the first quarter had plunged 83% from a year earlier, to a sickly 2? a share. It was believed to be the first time that a major bank had passed a dividend since the Depression. The Federal Reserve Board felt called upon to make two highly unusual announcements: that the Comptroller of the Currency had guaranteed that the bank was "solvent," and that the board stood ready...
...Green squad arrives at Harvard today with one of the foremost javelin artists in the East--sophomore Skip Cummins. The New England intercollegiate record holder, Cummins placed second at the Penn Relays last weekend, and has already uncorked a throw of 246 ft. 10 in. in a triangular meet with Northeastern and Boston University...
Even if you decide to skip the mysterious USSR in 1974, or to pass up the bistros of Bulgaria this time around, Let's Go will be a useful companion as you get insulted in the more traditional stops on a European tour. Its different attitude is reflected even on its cover, and Let's Go's hitchhiking hand should be more popular among Europeans this summer than Arthur Frommer's prominent American dollar signs...