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...first-come, first-served basis to passengers with reservations. Veteran People flyers arrive at least an hour in advance to make sure they can get on board. Customers with reservations who are denied a seat are entitled to compensation: generally a place on a later flight and a free ticket good for a future round trip on any of People's U.S. routes. All airlines overbook, but People is the worst offender. About ten to twelve passengers per 10,000 are bumped from People flights, twice the industry average. The airline's executives justify the practice by saying that many...
...work did survive, though unconsulted. Few visits were paid to his Shaw monument on Boston Common, the most intensely felt image of military commemoration ever made by an American; few Manhattanites bestowed more than a glance at his monuments to Admiral Farragut and General Sherman. Curators who, given the ticket, would cross the Atlantic to admire some steatopygous bauble by Niki de Saint-Phalle would hardly have crossed the street to see an Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Even today his rehabilitation is incomplete. Sculpture provokes fewer fantasies than painting; not everyone is willing to give Saint-Gaudens the place accorded...
Senator Ted Kennedy's withdrawal from the 1988 presidential campaign [NATION, Dec. 30] is a healing gift to the Democratic Party. We can now have a winning ticket with New York Governor Mario Cuomo as presidential candidate and Virginia's former Governor Charles Robb as vice-presidential nominee. Nancy Means Columbia...
...Union years saw head-spinning political changes in Niebuhr. Although he ran for Congress on the Socialist ticket, he later came to accept the capitalism, tempered by welfare programs, of the New Deal. Niebuhr led the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, but later railed against isolationist clergy and supported America's entry into World...
...Ardis Krainik, 56, a former mezzo who was once Fox's secretary, the company is again robust. The deficits are gone, the budget has risen from $9.1 million four seasons ago to $14.8 million this year, and the number of productions will increase from eight to nine next year. Ticket sales have run at 92% of the opera house's 3,520-seat capacity. Quality is high too: this season, Bellini's bel canto I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Soprano Cecilia Gasdia and Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos was an unexpected smash hit, and the Lyric's tradition of presenting operatic...