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After allowing 20 of the 44 passengers to disembark, the hijackers ordered the pilot to take off again, but agreed to a closer destination: Canton, 90 miles away. Surprised officials at White Cloud airport fed the passengers, including four Americans, and put them up overnight in a nearby barracks. The next morning, Chinese authorities sent plane and passengers winging home -minus the six hijackers...
...Overnight cleaning personnel may have mistaken the forms for trash and carted them off to be burned, according to Seamus P. Malin '62, director of the office. Secretaries had piled the forms in a cardboard box inside the locked office, after collecting them from students during the day. March 1 was the deadline for filing applications...
...Vietnamize" the war will "change the color of the casualties," its goal is still a military victory. And the only way to win a war of national liberation, he added, is to deliver a crushing blow to the enemy-the kind of blow that tactical nuclear weapons "could accomplish overnight...
There are good reasons for the overnight success of waterbeds. Says Storekeeper George Pugh of Long Beach, Calif.: "You can make them rock-and-roll you to sleep." Buyers with bad backs report noticeable relief. But perhaps the greatest impetus to sales has been provided by another remarkable quality of the waterbed. Claims an Aquarius ad: "Two things are better on a waterbed. One of them is sleep." Urges another advertisement: "Live and love in liquid luxury." A third promises: "She'll admire you for your car, she'll respect you for your position...
...deficit of some $46 million. The carrier is saving up to $300,000 a year by using less expensive paper and fewer colors for tickets, timetables and entertainment programs. The little red slip-socks, which once were parceled out on all Red Carpet flights, are now limited to overnight trips. Passengers' skis are stored in polyethylene bags instead of bulkier and costlier corrugated cardboard boxes. Napkins are no longer rolled inside a ring but, to save labor costs, are packed together with silverware in sealed plastic bags. Disposable paper has replaced linen for the headrest covers...