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...problems, but both evidently suffered increasing frustration trying to deal with them. Caught without sufficient long-term fuel contracts, TWA has been forced to pay more than competitors United and American for kerosene to operate its fleet of 230 jets. Early this year, in a swap with Pan Am, TWA surrendered all of its Pacific routes in return for a handful of new routes to Southern Europe, two of which (to Nice and Barcelona) TWA has so far elected not to fly. Meanwhile, the recession has reduced the number of filled seats on the airline's flights...
...when he will turn 65. Tillinghast will now almost certainly stay on for a while to bridge the transition to a new management. One pressing issue facing the next chief will be whether to take back the Pacific routes and thus become a global carrier again when the route swap with Pan Am expires within the next two years. Trans World seems likely to continue losing money this year, though its monthly deficits may be smaller. In hopes of bringing a fresh approach to bear on the airline's myriad problems, the board will probably go outside the company...
...less adventurous swap barbs by mail, using lists and catalogues published by barbed-wire associations. Hollis Gordon, a retired welder from Independence, Mo., wrote to government leaders in foreign countries. His collection includes strips from Korea, Nationalist China and a specimen used in France during World...
...Israel asked for an end to the economic boycott that Egypt, along with other Arab nations, has imposed since 1948. Egypt's reply was that it might ease the boycott on U.S. firms, among them Ford and Coca-Cola. 'That's some swap," grumbled one Israeli diplomat. "Israel self-destructs to save Coca-Cola...
Once one accepts this arbitrary and highly implausible premise, the play sails along on a tide of felicitous gags and domestic ups and downs reported at one remove. Doris and George swap spouse stories instead of spouses. Meanwhile, over a time span of a quarter of a century, the changes in attitudes, dress and behavior that occur in Doris and George constitute a kind of nostalgic calendar of the U.S. itself. Except that it is wittier, Same Time, Next Year is a redo of The Fourposter. It is the kind of theatrical fare that fiftyish middle-class marrieds have been...