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...attackers beat and bound him. Then they forced Patricia, who was wearing only a blue bathrobe, to their commandeered car. Horrified neighbors, driven back by gunfire that the men pumped steadily into nearby windows and cars, heard her screaming "Please not me, please!" before she was stuffed into the trunk of the car. Minutes later, the group transferred to a station wagon reportedly occupied by two other people...
...though, the cutbacks are a key to profits. The carriers over the years have become overstaffed, overequipped and overcompetitive. The industry's average load factor over the past three years has been 52%, meaning that nearly half the available seats were unsold. Last year three of the eleven trunk lines-American, Eastern and Pan American-lost money...
...year for the airlines, it will not be for lack of effort on their part. Though tight fuel allocations already have been eased, the trunk carriers maintain their original cuts in schedules, employees and planes. Eastern Executive Vice President Charles J. Simons has called for a 4% increase on tickets to cover rising general expenses, plus an added surcharge for increased fuel costs, and the Civil Aeronautics Board will probably grant these requests. The international lines began charging 4% to 6% more three weeks ago, and are looking for another 7% increase on March 1 and still another increase later...
While Uncle Sam is doling out our tax money to a bankrupt part of the transportation industry he shows a complete lack of concern for the estimated 25,000 employees of the growing (and unsubsidized) trunk airlines who have lost their jobs owing to an arbitrary 25% cut in the lines' fuel allocations...
Growing out of the spinal cord like the crown of a tree out of its trunk, the brain has several major components (see diagram page 52). The limbic system, an area that surrounds the head of the brain stem and includes such structures as the amygdala, part of the thalamus, hypothalamus and hippocampus, regulates the emotions. The pituitary, which hangs down from the brain stem like an olive from the tree, produces the hormones that influence growth and development. The cerebellum, a fist-sized structure at the rear of the brain that controls movements and coordination, enables man to touch...