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...first of the one-a-day flights in DC-10 jumbos, some seats were empty, and later some planes took off with only a third of the 345 seats filled. Yet at minimum, little Laker Airways (eleven jets) has broken the iron grip of the International Air Transport Association (I ATA) on transatlantic pricing* and prodded the industry's giants into offering competitive fares that are lower than they ever thought they would go. Pan Am and TWA actually beat Laker into the bargain-basement blue yonder by eleven days, selling stand-by seating on regular flights...
...alliance's armed forces. Thus U.S. Cobra helicopters, armed with TOW antitank missiles, provided cover for West German tank units and were directed to targets by West German officers. Old tricks were also polished, like dropping a Sheridan light tank from a low-flying C-130 transport plane...
DIED. William M. Magruder, 54, crew-cut former test pilot who headed the federal su personic transport program; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...
...next day, delegates accepted the twelve-month rule, but at the cost of an ominous amount of internal strife. The opposition to the rule included delegates of the 1.9 million-member Transport and General Workers' Union and the militant 260,000-member National Union of Mineworkers, whose members rejected the recommendations of their leaders. Most of the margin of victory came from the 1.2 million-member Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, many of whose delegates tried in vain to challenge the pro-rule vote reported by President Hugh Scanlon. That move was scotched by Marie Patterson, a member...
...kindergarten through third grade into regular city classrooms-at no substantial increase in expense, they argue, over that of educating normal children. All but a few attend the handsome William M. Trotter School in Roxbury, a school with a large staff that is even equipped with an elevator to transport children in wheelchairs...