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Continental, fourth smallest of the eleven U.S. trunk lines, has prospered because it has mostly long-haul routes, running westward from Chicago, and they are cheaper to service than short flights. Six also gets so much productivity from his workers that Continental generates $33,600 in revenues per employee, compared with an average $29,000 for the domestic Big Four of American, Eastern, TWA and United...
...type who actually uses words like "golly" and "gee" and is still married to his first wife after 14 years. He has also become one of the most gifted of character actors, a sublime technician for whom no inward emotion is too big to be fixed firmly in the smallest outward detail...
...nation with a trillion-dollar economy be running out of money? That startling question is forcing itself upon every government official who must shape a budget, from President Nixon down to the head of the smallest local mosquito-abatement district. By most measures of private wealth, the U.S. is the world's richest country. But in terms of its ability to pay for the public services?health care, education, welfare, garbage pickup, pollution control, police and fire protection?that make the life of its citizens pleasant, or at least tolerable, or in some cases even possible, the country seems almost...
...free, the next event, Harvard's Fred Mitchell, a consistent performer all season long, came from behind in the final 50 yards to nip Yale captain Bob Kasting. The victory narrowed the Bulldog's lead to 15-10, the smallest of the day. But following Harvard's back-to-back wins, Yale began to pour...
...Government has long been trying to reverse the trend. Subsidies to the nation's nine regional airlines-for retaining their 30 smallest outposts climbed from $36 million in 1969 to $59 million last year. In all, the subsidies average $65 for each traveler flying out of the 30 towns. Under a complex formula, the Civil Aeronautics Board now pays Hughes Airwest $466 for each of the few passengers that it carries out of Payette and nearby Ontario, Ore. The airline's highest regular fare is $85 for a trip from Phoenix to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Air-west...