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...with a young Australian couple and their two daughters from Flight 007. "She was reading to those beautiful little girls," he recalled later, through tears. "It was the most marvelous thing you could have seen." With Helms was Idaho Senator Steve Symms. They looked for Georgia Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald, who was scheduled to be one of the main conference speakers. They knew he had taken the other flight. "Larry had no trouble sleeping on planes," Symms said later. "So he stayed on board during the stopover, and we never saw him." Added Helms: "Maybe if we had, we would...
Kentucky Congressman Carroll Hubbard also got off Flight 015. He had expected to join McDonald on Flight 007, but had canceled his reservation at the last minute in order to accept a speaking engagement in Kentucky. McDonald had originally been booked on Sunday's Flight 007, but had missed it when his connecting plane from Atlanta was diverted because of thunderstorms in New York City. He had time to catch a Pan Am flight to Seoul but preferred the lower fare he had arranged with...
...giant of the field is Hospital Corporation of America, which Dun's Business Month last year rated as one of the five best-managed companies in the U.S. With 367 facilities worldwide, a staff of 40,000 physicians and 7.5 million patients daily, H.C.A. has been called "the McDonald's of the hospital business." Founded in 1968 by Dr. Thomas Frist, 82, a Nashville cardiologist, his son Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., 44, and Jack Massey, 78, one of the founders of Kentucky Fried Chicken, H.C.A. is today run by the younger Dr. Frist. While he is a trained...
Many firms, however, seem willing to push forward with flexible programs no matter what the IRS decides. Says Martha McDonald, personnel services manager of the Public Service Co. of New Mexico in Albuquerque, which has been considering switching to a cafeteria plan: "We feel we could implement one based on current proposed regulations and then change the program if we needed to." McDonald adds that she personally would like such a package. "I never get around to taking my vacation," she says, "so I would certainly rather be paid for the vacation I don't take...
...meetings since Christmas to take advantage of the police-sponsored Ident-A-Kid program. On Mother's Day weekend, employees of Honeywell in Clearwater, Fla., brought 93 of their offspring to the office to participate in the company-sponsored Operation Ident. That same weekend in New England, 40 McDonald's restaurants promoted a "Thumbs Up!" Mcfingerprinting...