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...life, she wrote poetry, but write it she did-reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it was inadvertently funny: "Was ever gem so rich found in thy trunk/ As Egypt's wanton Cleopatra drunk?" Yet when her work was published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up In America, it became one of the "most vendible books in England," and when its author died in 1672 her eulogist said: "Time will a poet...
...assessment, but, sometimes, getting the story out of Glassboro proved hardest. Communications were a shambles, and reporters were reduced to queuing up outside a few phone booths in the yard. At one point, Bruce Nelan was trying impatiently to get a call through to New York on the overloaded trunk line. As he waited and waited, a Japanese newsman appeared at the phone next to him, asked for a Tokyo number, and got it instantly...
Today, self-rechristened as "supplemental" airlines, the 13-company industry has bounced back to become the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Last year its revenues jumped 49% to a record $213 million, and profits climbed to $22 million-more than the nation's eleven domestic trunk airlines netted in 1963. "All the nuts and kooks have been weeded out," says President Roy E. Foulke of the National Air Carrier Association, spokesman for the supplementals. "We've got a hard-core group of operators...
Part of that prosperity is due to the Viet Nam war. Ferrying troops and equipment for the Pentagon accounts for 62% of the supplementals' revenues. A big lift, however, comes from the growing travel market. Last year the CAB-to the consternation of the trunk airlines-empowered the supplementals to charter their planes to travel agents for all-expense "inclusive tours" both inside and outside...
...tours can be sold to all comers, not merely to members of established groups, at prices well below those offered by trunk lines for group tours. Only a few score such flights have taken off so far, but bookings are rising rapidly. Overseas National has been plugging its $160 round-trip fare from New York to London (for groups of 40 or more) with full-page ads sneering at the trunk-line group minimum of $230. "Our biggest competitors just announced the lowest jet fares in history," goes one ad's headline. "Since when is $230 less than...