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That is happening already: American Express Travel, the country's largest agency, said last week it will charge $20 a ticket on domestic flights costing less than $300 and credit the fee toward cruises or tour packages. Carlson Wagonlit, the No. 2 agency, will charge a $15 fee to first-time customers who travel alone and book no other services; such flyers will then receive $25 certificates, good for future trips...
...largest and most influential travel agencies in the world, American Express and Carlson Wagonlit Travel, will start charging customers fees for writing tickets. The move, which many agencies are expected to follow, is a response to a decision by seven major U.S. airlines to end their 10 percent commissions to travel agents, who make 85 percent of U.S. plane reservations. The airlines say they will pay agents just $25 per one-way domestic ticket and $50 per round-trip fare instead. To help make up the losses, Carlson Wagonlit will charge a $15 service fee beginning Apr. 1, and American...
...London to Paris to Istanbul, and finally to Paraguay. Greene is not only putting the reader on. He is putting himself on. We are back in The Orient Express (Greene's fourth novel), but an Orient Express without the Conrad Veidt monocles or the concupiscent dancers in the wagonlit. Just the respectable Mr. Pulling, smoking his first stick of pot, gift of an American girl who calls herself Tooley. With a boy friend who paints Brand X soup cans and a father in the CIA, Tooley is the ultimate in flower-child hippiedom. The pot she gives poor Pulling...
...source of the actual sociological unity which we call Europe," Dawson says flatly, "is Christian culture." His lifelong argument: without educating themselves in their universal Christian cultural foundations, Europeans will never grasp why their continent can be more than a congeries of geographical neighbors, serviced by the same wagonlit: system...
...with progressive severity, any further thefts of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel formula. Aside from this defect, Rome Express, by far the most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp eye for dramatic touches. Good shot: the hand of a corpse hanging out of a berth, swinging...