Word: utilitarian
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...Nineteen O'Clock. Proof that passengers want more utilitarian air service is the success of Eastern Air Lines' no-reservation "shuttle." Eastern President Malcolm Maclntyre has boosted his line's share of the New York-Washington, D.C.. and New York-Boston air travel market from 30% to better than 70% in less than two years by introducing the Air Shuttle service, in which fares are low ($14.29 New York to Washington v. $20.05 for first-class jet service), frills are nonexistent, and the passenger is assured of a seat (a back-up plane flies any overflow...
...like augers. Besides the three rooms of golden debris in her house, she maintains two more studios near by-one in a former pizzeria, where she does her "dirty work, my black things," and one a few doors away for her white work. Her material is wood, shaped for utilitarian purposes-and salvaged by her from dumps and antique shops, or donated by friendly driftwood gatherers. For tools she uses an electric band saw, files, and a hammer...
...Decline of Pleasure (Simon & Schuster, $5), Kerr blames not the usual scapegoat, the Puritans, but the British Utilitarian philosophers of the last century, who declared: "Value depends entirely on utility." As a practical people. Americans readily accepted this practical advice. Americans, he argues, feel that all their acts must serve some useful purpose, and when they do not, they feel guilty. Thus Americans work harder at their leisure than at their jobs, play bridge or tinker with their homes as intently as if the boss were watching. "It is in the privacy of our passing from kitchen to bedroom . . . that...
...endless as one of his own escalators. "I have no illusions that this is now the new downtown," he says, "but even if this is only a piece, not the whole, it will demonstrate the three main tenets of my planning philosophy for downtown." First, "the separation of utilitarian func tions from human functions," i.e., truck and service traffic are separated from other traffic by use of the underground truck roads and the underground garage. Second, "the ideal city should fulfill the needs of variety and diversity." Midtown intermingles old and new buildings, tall ones and squat ones, and there...
...Airlines cut-rate youth fare, which will not be picked up by other lines. - The airlines are seriously considering lifting coach fares from about 75% of first-class fares to about 80-85% if CAB will agree-though they hope that fewer frills will ultimately make for cheaper, more utilitarian air travel...