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Faced with such competition, airlines have spent more energy and money trying to win passengers from one another than trying to woo more people into the air. An estimated 55% of today's air travelers are businessmen, a fact that increased the recent recession's impact on airlines. Companies shifted executives from first class to coach and eliminated unnecessary trips. This year, for the first time in the industry's 40-year history, more than half of all travel is in the less profitable coach class...
...such, Kaye might be expected to drink like a general, inspect the troops, and woo the old man's beautiful wife (Dana Wynter). Instead, he just seems to be longing wistfully-with the audience-for the fun that used to be. The script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails...
Fort Lauderdale's surf was infested with sharp-stinging Portuguese men-of-war. For two nights running, the Elbo Room and other favorite undergraduate hangouts were closed early on police orders. On top of that, Jade Beach, traditionally the scene of wholesale woo after dark, was declared off limits. Worst of all, the girls were in dismayingly short supply, outnumbered 10 to 1 by the boys. Any small diversion-someone playing a bongo drum, a girl dancing the limbo-attracted hundreds of listless onlookers. Joseph Penar, a bearded student from Illinois State Normal University, shinnied up a coconut palm...
...preposterous dream has materialized in a $400,000 Victorian house on Chicago's North State Street, complete from the half-acre bed to the woo grotto. No wonder its owner says "Life is beautiful." He is Hugh Marston Hefner, 34, editor and publisher of Playboy Magazine, a sort of editorial whee, whose candy castle-aswarm with Playboy's celebrated center-spread Playmates-symbolizes the expansion of his young empire into show business. Scarcely a year in operation, Hefner's members-only Playboy key club has become the largest employer of entertainment talent in Chicago...
...writing about everything from jazz (Ralph Gleason) to how to shuck out of a brassiére (Count Marco). News often gave way to such oddball features as a lavishly illustrated Page One Halloween story on five nightgowned girls terrified by a "haunted" apartment. In a further effort to woo subscribers, the Chronicle offered a two-month subscription for the price of one, and gave away a scale-model San Francisco cable car to any new four-month subscriber with children...