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...growing shortage of gasoline points to one field that has been sorely neglected in Canada and the U.S.: public transport. When fuel supplies dwindle, the logical thing is to bring back good train service...
...while allowing corporate profits and interest rates to rise unchecked, the AFL-CIO's executive council said last week that it is no longer "reasonable to expect the trade union movement to counsel moderation of wage increases." Just how immoderate the big unions-which include the electrical workers, transport workers, machinists and auto workers-will be when their turns come up in later months remains to be seen, but for the moment it looks like a long, hot summer at the bargaining table...
Before Thomson can fly such mixed loads on his new route, he needs approval from other members of the International Air Transport Association-the very airlines that his ads twit-and from interested governments. Meanwhile, he is trying to pull in passengers for Caledonian's daily New York-London and five-day-a-week New York-Los Angeles flights by touting Caledonian's service (baggage handlers, the ads claim, take extra care with luggage, and stewardesses will sharpen pencils for the businessman doing work aloft) and Scottish image. Airplanes are named after Scottish counties and haggis is served...
...aerospace industry has long booked itself on a nonstop flight into the future, speeding from one set of new aircraft to more advanced successors on the horizon. Now the horizon is empty, and has been since Congress shot down the American supersonic transport two years ago. For the first time since World War II, U.S. aerospace companies have no new generation of silvery flying ships that is imminently scheduled to zoom off the drawing boards and onto the production line. Some aerospace men are not bothered by what they regard as a welcome breathing spell, but others are. Says Eastern...
...jabbering paranoid who is too thoroughly spaced out to respond to her pleas and advances. Damiano's heavy moral is that Georgina will have to spend eternity in a frenzy of frustration. Not quite as bad an actress as one might expect, Georgina performs in sequences of sexual transport very much like a professional...