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...arranged a thrice-weekly charter flight to bring women there from cities in the Middle West. Others arrive by car. His venture has been booming, to the extent of 175 cases a week. Mitchell, who advertises his clinic on billboards, has even hired a plane to tow a huge airborne sign over Miami Beach. Once he planned airborne abortions, to be performed in a circling jetliner, but he could not find doctors willing to cooperate. Most women find his charge of $400 a bargain. It includes the round-trip flight from Detroit, ground transportation to the clinic, and lunch...
...barge itself is a motorless wonder. While the orchestra members travel overland by bus, Boudreau moves the barge from stop to stop, like a kind of riverside hitchhiker. All the tow captains know the Point Counterpoint, as the barge is officially known, and willingly put a towline aboard and move it on to the next town. That saves the orchestra $12,000 to $15,000 a summer in tow charges. Placed against the orchestra's annual $90,000 budget, the saving is substantial...
...sell cigarettes, sandwiches or coffee. This is what makes it a clean, old-fashioned ice cream place. We don't want tables for kids to hang around all day. Adults love to come to a store like this." But when they do, they often have in tow hungry tots bent on a bedtime snack...
Unnecessary Advice. Thieu has already begun his re-election campaign. Last week, with the diplomatic corps in tow, he paid a flying visit to Vietnamese troops of the 21st Infantry Division in the waterlogged U Minh forest, one of the most impregnable Viet Cong strongholds until ARVN troops began a campaign to reoccupy it six months ago. Thieu assured villagers: "Our troops will stay on here now for a thousand years to ensure your security." At an anniversary ceremony for the division, he cut the huge birthday cake with a sword. "We don't use swords to make wars...
Judge Robert Colombo took the advice. With jury, lawyers and defendant in tow, he toured the murder site. It had been freshly painted, and some workers said they had been cleaning up nonstop since the shootings. But it was clear that little had really changed. Workers stopped to watch as the judge, Johnson and the others walked by. Their gazes reflected little anger and much sympathy; there were muffled cries of "Hey, Brother Johnson . . . Right on, Brother Johnson...