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...TRUNK, son," the Queen said. "You're going to Harvard." In Cambridge the Prince met a wizard in corduroy who fed him spices full of visions. Banquets, English carriages, French cigarettes. He was really living...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: The Prince | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

...Braniff, which has strong ties to the old Administration, lost a stopover in Mexico, although it retains several new runs to Hawaii which, as domestic routes, are not subject to presidential review. Under the Johnson decision, Los Angeles-based Continental Airlines stood to grow from the eleventh biggest U.S. trunk line into a sizable international carrier serving such South Pacific spots as Samoa, Australia and New Zealand. Continental's President Bob Six had served the previous Administration by providing extensive-if not always clearly defined-services in Southeast Asia. The line has at various times employed such Democratic stalwarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Pacific Solutions | 4/18/1969 | See Source »

...Japanese," he observed, "are perhaps physically the least attractive of all the races of the world with the exception of Pygmies and Hottentots." He lamented the "flat, expressionless faces" of his countrymen, went on to describe their "disproportionately large head, elongated trunk and short, often bowed legs." Japanese tourists, he recalled, often have to pay twice as much as other foreigners for a prostitute's favors in the great cities of the world, and he observed that "Negroes, their pigmentation of skin notwithstanding, are at least taller and straighter than the Japanese and perhaps have a greater sex appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: The Undiplomat | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...PUBLICATION of the CAB Examiner's Report is the culmination of years of controversy. Complaints from other airlines had been vociferous in the past but short-lived; 24 of them, including all 11 domestic trunk lines, eventually dropped one of the two systems, and 14 tried to convince the Examiner to retain...

Author: By Eric Redman, | Title: Is Half Fare Only Half Fair? | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

...olds claimed the car as their private playground, crawling in and out of it and smashing the windows. One of the last visitors was a middle-aged man in a camel's hair coat and matching hat, pushing a baby in a carriage. He stopped, rummaged through the trunk, took out an unidentifiable part, put it in the baby carriage, and wheeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Diary of a Vandalized Car | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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