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...been profitable every year since 1987. Lately the fresh-cookie airline has pitched itself to pleasure travelers--though there are limits on how much it can push the price in that segment. Says Wally Durso, president of Travel Dynamics of Brookfield, Wis., a Milwaukee suburb: "I don't believe fares are No. 1. If Midwest Express is within $50 of a competing airline, a lot of my clients will go with Midwest Express...
McDonald's serves jillions of Happy Meals each year, but not many are being shared around the company's pleasant headquarters in a Chicago suburb these days. "There's no question we've been under more stress than we're used to," says McDonald's USA chairman Jack Greenberg, who runs the company's 12,100 domestic restaurants...
...with the conclusion of the war, the Ashong family settled in Voorhees, a well-heeled suburb in south New Jersey. The public school he attended there was safe--"It wasn't one of those schools where he had to dodge bullets," his father, Dr. Emmanuel Ashong says with evident relief--but Ashong found that Eastern Senior High had its own traps...
...Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), has long been known for his combative relations with the networks suits. "I learned from him that network executives were hateful, horrible people who should be shot on sight," says Tarses with a smile. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills, where her parents kept her safely aloof from the show-biz scene. But her dad liked to read his scripts aloud at the dinner table and discuss his shows with the family. "It was more in the context of Dad's work," she says, "not the television business...
...about pounding the pavement. Angling for votes to add to his National Front party's surprising 15 percent returns in last Sunday's first round of elections, fiery right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen found himself instead in a slugfest with some 30 hecklers in the crime-plagued Paris suburb of Mantes-La-Jolie. In the tumult, Le Pen wound up striking one youth who had shoved him and lunging after others in the jeering, egg-hurling crowd. One man who may wish he had been there, sticks and stones in hand, is endangered president Jacques Chirac. With its blame...