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...Midway through the half, Oberg hit Bott, who split the uprights with a beautiful 25-yd. drop kick. Moments later, the talented transfer student added another three points with a 20-yd. penalty kick...
...show, glimmerings of the power and potential that lie below his surface. Seemingly, McPhee's deepest feelings are for the woods, streams and mountains of America-at any rate, The Pine Barrens and Coming Into the Country, an Alaskan saga, are his two finest books. In Giving Good Weight, midway through an account of a canoe trip on which he was accompanied by boatloads of wealthy Harvardians, McPhee shows his understanding of his own mood and of the power of the forest: "Physical labor as a bringer of sleep doesn't seem to do much for me. But the woods...
Among the most successful new regional carriers is Chicago's Midway Airlines, launched last November in the nearly abandoned Midway Airport. The line promoted its proximity to downtown Chicago (eight miles from the Loop, vs. 22 miles for competing O'Hare) with a pair of sexy, ruby red lips and the slogan "Kiss O'Hare Goodbye. Jet Midway Airlines." Many travelers did just that. In its first seven months. Midway flew 190,000 passengers and rang up $7.3 million in revenues...
...Mart of the skies. Midway takes the plain pipe rack approach to flights between Chicago and Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis and Washington. Founder and Chairman Irving Tague, 52, the former head of San Francisco-based Hughes AirWest, got the line aloft by leasing three ten-year-old DC-9 jets from TWA and daubing them with rainbow colors. Uniforms for flight attendants came off the peg rather than being designer-made. No meals are served aloft, yet drinks are a bargain at $1 each. Midway's nonunionized ticket agents cheerfully help load bags or straighten...
...major lines, though, are beginning to take notice of the roaring mouse. When Midway announced $44 tickets between Chicago and Minneapolis, Northwest immediately cut its fare by as much as $52 to match the price, and taxied up four daily flights...