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...merger is successful, the nation's pioneers in overseas flights would still face formidable hurdles. TWA is saddled with one of the oldest fleets in the industry and an estimated $2 billion in debt, while Pan Am lacks a strong domestic system. Moreover, by selling their London routes to two of the most aggressive U.S. carriers, Pan Am and TWA can expect increased competition overseas. Yet the merger would have at least one advantage: the combined carrier would have to sell off overlapping routes, providing it with additional cash...
...OLDEST DEAL For 35 years, a congressional committee has dithered about the design and funding for a memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Plans have now been set for a nine-acre, $47 million garden plaza in downtown Washington. Groundbreaking will occur next year for a scheduled 1995 dedication...
...some take advantage of the search to point out what they say is wrong with the nation's oldest university...
...took the jury less than four hours to decide the sentence: death by lethal injection. If the judge ratifies the jury's recommendation next month, as expected, Faye Copeland, 69, will become the oldest woman in the nation on death row. Last week Livingston County jurors ordered the ultimate punishment for the Missouri great-grandmother for her role in the bizarre killings of five drifters to cover up a cattle-rustling scheme...
...captain with -- yes -- the Harris County sheriff's department. The entire family moved to Houston from Philadelphia in 1963 when Betsy's father John Herrmann became a project manager for NASA, working on the lunar module. He died in 1976, but his influence lives on in his second-oldest child. "Growing up, Karen and Ginger were very outgoing, but I was shy," Watson says. "Our father kept reassuring all of us that we could do anything we wanted to do. We were as smart as anyone we would meet in our lifetime...