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Muse and others have their suggestions for dealing with congestion. One is to construct more airports. "If the highways are crowded," says Phil Bakes, president of Continental Airlines, "the role of the Government is to build more roads, not to tell people what time to go to and from work." But not one major U.S. airport has been built in the past ten years, despite a 50% increase in passenger traffic; local opposition to increased noise levels is stalling sorely needed expansion of at least a dozen existing facilities...
...gives old black-and-white a new life," says Lisa Merians of Viacom Industries, which distributes the Twilight Zone special and owns the rights to such filmed series as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners and The Phil Silvers Show. MGM, which has more than 4,000 films in its library, is paying up to $180,000 a movie for computerized-color versions of such classsics as the 1942 musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which...
With its shifting mix of Hispanics, oil entrepreneurs and Yankee yuppie transplants, Texas has as many constituencies as it has recipes for five-alarm chili. Republican Phil Gramm and Democrat Lloyd Doggett have been trying to cope with this volatile hodgepodge as they crisscross the state in their quest to win the Senate seat held by retiring Republican John Tower. The Lone Star candidates are as sharply dissimilar as the voters they are courting. Comments San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Doggett supporter: "No one can say it's hard to tell the candidates apart...
...that's left for the coaches to do is to send the teams onto the field. A terse Brown Coach Phil Pincince, would only say that "It should be a very good game...
...consisted of highlights from his speech and footage of the delirious reception he received from the delegates. The film was studded with staged vignettes of American life: a smiling old couple, a wedding, a sunrise, a house under construction. Over one, an announcer says, "America's back." Explains Phil Dusenberry, a Madison Avenue creative director and Reagan advertising strategist: "That is what we have done in the past with Pepsi, to elicit a sense of feeling. It is a sense of optimism, a sense of patriotism...