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...made a last-minute adjustment to the motor. When everything was ready, Wilbur tried to release the rope fastening the machine to the rail, but the thrust of the propellers was so great he could not get it loose and two of the men had to forcibly push the Flyer backward a few inches until the rope slipped free. Orville ran beside the machine, balancing it with one hand. In the other hand he held a stopwatch, which he started as the Flyer lifted from the rail...
...April Fool's Day surprise that still makes David Zrike fly into a rage. Like more than 15 million other Americans, Zrike, a 27-year-old partner in a New York City importing business, belongs to a frequent-flyer program that gives bonus trips to loyal airline passengers who accumulate sufficient travel miles. For two years Zrike faithfully flew on Trans World Airlines to reach the 60,000-mile mark needed for two free coach tickets to any TWA destination in the world. Then, on April 1, the airline revised its program. Now 60,000 bonus miles will earn...
...their part, airlines appear to have misjudged the cost of one of the industry's runaway successes. Last year U.S. airlines issued more than $1 billion worth of bonus awards, estimates Business Flyer, an industry newsletter. This year, but for the rule changes, the amount would have exceeded $2 billion. United had been shuttling so many free or upgraded passengers to Hawaii that "we didn't have enough seats to sell our paying customers," complained Suzanne Weiss, manager of the airline's Mileage Plus program. But the bonuses have also brought the airlines badly needed brand loyalty...
Despite what the flyer called "certain unintentional similarities between From Here to Eternity and Days of our Lives, Dallas, Dynasty and Love Story," the first episode of the Leverett House Soap Opera, directed by Adam Schwartz and Cliff Goodstein, was in fact amusing...
...Arabs in recent years in swaps for nine Israelis in enemy hands. At midweek the Israeli newspaper Davar reported that multinational negotiations to free all foreigners were secretly under way. While calling the story "completely baseless," a government affidavit conceded that efforts were being made to get the Israeli flyer back. That aroused new suspicions about a sweeping hostage deal...