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...airlines' sudden coziness reflects the fact that misery not only loves, but often needs company-and 1970 was a miserable year. Pan Am and seven of the eleven domestic trunk lines lost a total of at least $125 million during the year. The nine regional airlines collectively lost another $50 million. Only four big lines-Eastern, Continental, Delta and Northwest Orient-showed a profit, mostly because they had the good luck to have busy routes, and made the most efficient use of their planes. Airmen argue that mergers will increase efficiency and reduce costs, and the Nixon Administration seems...
...then ordered to London to become a member of DeGaulle's private staff. Not so young four years later when he rejoined Mrs. Mayer after D-Day, Mayer and his beautiful wife returned to America, his college diploma summa cum laude in hand and his war decorations in a trunk. Mayer said, "I never had that Scott Fitzgerald youth that one can imagine enjoying to the hilt . . . After spending five years as an artillery officer engaging in wholescale destruction, I wanted to help rebuild the world through science." He came to America, this time Yale, partly he says, "because...
...issues. Mohawk has offered to pay its captains-who now average $2,625 per month-a monthly wage of $2,985 by 1972. The union wants an average $3,100 per month immediately, to bring the pay of Mohawk pilots up to the scale paid by larger trunk lines. Beyond that, ALPA insists that Mohawk meet no fewer than 80 demands-from shorter hours to a ban on training flights between midnight and 6 a.m.-that would give the pilots far and away their best contract with any of the nation's nine regional airlines. The stickiest issue...
...peacetime in tolerant, democratic Canada-and sent battalions of special police and troops into Quebec to deal with what he called an "insurrection, real or apprehended." The F.L.Q.'s response was swift and savage. Less than two days after Trudeau's action, Laporte was found in the trunk of a car, dead by strangulation. Little hope was held out that Jasper Cross would ever be found alive...
...young, 4,500-Ib. bull elephant, staged a prison riot last August. He charged Zoo Foreman Carl Weese, cracking cartilage, gashing him in the arm with his tusks. Weese was saved by a co-worker who rushed into Sabu's pen and began pounding the elephant on the trunk, driving him back...