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Since their initial clash both teams have run into major snafus. B.C., which loomed as the cream of New England's basketball crop before the season began, has tottered to a 5-7 mark. The Crimson had double trouble over the weekend, bowing to Ivy frontrunner Princeton 62-57, after hanging tough until the waning moments, and then dropping a 63-53 decision to Penn the next...
...American Airlines terminal is not the airport's busiest. Braniff's is. American does not have a security checkpoint at each gate. Braniff and Texas International did not send some of their flights back to Love Field as a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, but to compete with Southwest Airlines, which remains at Love...
...gate has become a security gate, creating delay and confusion. Baggage-handling problems have been particularly vexing, again because of overcomputerization. Passengers have complained that the system chews up their bags as voraciously as if they were hamburgers, though the operation has been improved. As a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, the distance from downtown, and the exorbitant runway fees, Braniff and Texas International have moved part of their operations back to the old Love Field, only five miles from Dallas. Delta also is considering pulling some of its flights out of the giant airport. Southwest Airlines...
Chapin believes that artistic matters should be left to artists. He regards himself strictly as an administrator "with veto power." Pending the arrival next season of Artistic Director Rafael Kubelik, this policy has created a certain decision vacuum, one result of which has been a spate of scheduling snafus. Looking over the spring rehearsal calendar, the manager of one conductor discovered his client and the singers were scheduled for rehearsals on different dates. "The Met used to be run like an efficient concentration camp," he growled. "Now it's run like an inefficient day camp." The second half...
Part of Paar's trouble was technical snafus. The first night his microphone went dead, and there were miscues for commercials. Beyond that, Paar-quite understandably-was more than usually nervous. "Look at me," he said. "I look confident and serene. Would you believe that I put both feet through the same hole in my Jockey shorts...