Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal came too late to refurbish the shabby hotel for this season, but Navarrete brought in Topflight Instructor Peter Estin and his ski-school teachers from Vermont's Sugarbush, got Panagra airline (50% Grace-owned) to set a ski-excursion round-trip fare of $420 (regular rate: $678) from Miami, and arranged an inexpensive ($2.50 a day) equipment-rental service in Santiago. Throwing up partitions at Portillo, he figures to expand capacity to 500, with $150,000 worth of ski lifts to haul them all. Even before remodeling and expansion, news of the new Portillo passed around so fast...
Slums & Culture. As they move into statehood, Hawaiians have their share of juvenile delinquency, traffic snarls, slums and crime, but they also have an extraordinarily high literacy rate (more than 98%), a topflight university (coming soon: a $200,000 East-West Cultural Exchange Center), a fine art academy and a symphony orchestra; and bustling new suburban complexes, studded with ranch houses. They appreciate some of the typical social aspects of U.S. mainland life as well: they love baseball, guzzle more soda pop and eat more hot dogs than the people of any other state...
Forest wanted to avoid the operas that the Metropolitan or New York City operas present, and to concentrate instead on "brand-new works or very, very old ones." He hired young singing talent, backed it up with topflight coaches and conductors, among them, Eduard van Reinum, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Markevitch. Although the festival, summer after summer, earned more than its share of critical huzzahs, it attracted only moderate crowds, had to be abandoned altogether last summer, when the festival tent was wrecked in a tearing summer squall during the American premiere of Murder in the Cathedral...
...jets after competitors American and Pan American, will add jet service to Philadelphia and Kansas City, bringing to ten the number of cities that its jets serve. TWA benefited from break-in bugs that other lines have found in Boeing 707s (TIME, June 8), which helped it maintain a topflight, on-time performance, with 80% of its jets departing within ten minutes of schedule...
Mitchell, a topflight labor-dispute mediator before he went into Government, buried himself in the perplexities of steel profits, costs, wages, prices, productivity, unemployment. He will make no public report, but will exercise the subtle pressure of an Administration that sorely wants a solution...