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...carrier. But in recent years it has lost so much traffic to Pan American and Eastern that it has been able to fill only 7.1% of its first-class seats and 58.5% of those in the coach section. Since 1968, Trans Caribbean has picked up new routes to the Virgin Islands, Haiti and the Netherlands Antilles. It has been unable to exploit these routes fully because its fleet consists of only nine jets. In the twelve months ending Nov. 30, Trans Caribbean actually flew only 81% of its scheduled aircraft miles. Many flights were cancelled for mechanical reasons or because...
...crowds at Courchevel, in the French Alps, were tickled rosé by the tireless enthusiasm of Skier Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Apparently undistracted by the resort's après-ski attractions, Canada's Prime Minister swooped 20 miles down a glacier run through virgin snow, braved subfreezing temperatures, high winds and unavoidable falls in heavy crust. Instructors gave his style a B to B+, "très joli," his spirit straight A's. "I thought of coming last year," said the sportsman, "but the general was still here." Not General Winter, either. ··· Making more...
...Sweden, Finland and-as of last October-West Germany, Japan's chief industrial rival. Yet, aside from a ten-month fling soon after World War II, Japan's ideologically fervent Socialist Party has had all the political appeal, as one European Socialist describes it, of "a scared virgin spinster...
...turning point came in 1955 when he took a vacation in Europe and decided to stay. It was virgin territory for mutual funds, and Cornfeld soon realized that investments in U.S. securities could be sold to great numbers of Europeans who had hitherto put most of their money into land or bank accounts. To avoid the risk of picking stocks for investment, he ingeniously created the Fund of Funds, a mutual fund that buys the shares of other funds. Soon Cornfeld was hiring salesmen in droves and inspiring them with his own zeal through generous stock options and commissions that...
...advent of science eroded angelic prerogatives. So, surprisingly, did the rise of Protestantism. Luther and Calvin believed in angels; but Luther prayed God not to send him angel visions because they distracted him. And both men were dedicated to downgrading angels, the Devil, the Virgin Mary-anything and everything that cluttered the image of God as an all-powerful being...