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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France and Lufthansa bought Boeing but, although they continue to acquire 747s, neither line has ordered any of the new mid-range Boeings since the Airbus A310 was introduced. Among the reasons: Airbus is more fuel efficient than the 767 for trips under 500 miles and better suited to shorter European distances. Except for the planes that it sold to Eastern two years ago, Airbus has yet to crack the U.S. or Canadian market. The battleground is spreading to the Middle East and North Africa, but with an astonishing backlog of almost $20 billion in orders, Boeing is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boeing Bonanza | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Everyone's Money Book by Jane Bryant Quinn. Conversational in style and lucid in its ex planations, Quinn's book, a third shorter and at $14.95 almost 50% cheaper than Porter's, is also a lot more fun to read. One section quotes Robert Frost: "Take care to sell your horse be fore he dies. The art of life is passing losses on." The book is well indexed, cross-referenced and divided into discrete subject areas; each chapter assumes the reader has not read the others. Quinn covers the usual ground of budgeting, investing, saving, home buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reads to Riches | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Although the Crimson didn't place first in the hurdles, the high jump or the shorter distance running events, Harvard names do appear in the point-scoring first three places in those events. Names to look for in the future in those events are co-captain Sue Harper, freshman Alida Castillo, freshman Karen Gray and freshman Hannah...

Author: By Jack A. Laschever, | Title: Women Thinclads Whip Weak Wildcats | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...difficult as the leering way that he recounts the tale of his "love" for Aryadne. Dionysus's role has nothing to do with the body of the play, except that the production, already a mercifully short hour-and-a-half, would hardly merit an intermission were it any shorter...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...brings more of the same, except it's shorter. The Commissioner (Charles Mills) delivers his lines with the humdrum tedium nearly everyone else seems to have mastered, and his squadron of guards whisper to each other every time they're supposed to move three steps to the right or left. In fact, nearly all the blocking in the play consists of simple pacing up and down the stage. Two steps to the left, deliver a line, four steps to the right, deliver another line, and poof--instant play...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Pity Aristophanes | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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