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AIRLINES High-Level Mess While the world monetary system continues to rattle and shake, another citadel of international agreement is falling further into disarray. The airline cartel, embodied in the 108-member International Air Transport Association, has entered a fresh round of warfare over transatlantic air fares. Passengers stand to benefit from lower fares, but some lines may suffer disastrous losses...
...sight in his Cadillac, headed for work. Trivial stuff, apparently, but the practiced Hailey reader knows that it may be important. In good time, surely, the author will reveal whether excessive G forces on the freeway caused the Cadillac's power ashtrays to malfunction, catalyzing a shake-up in G.M.'s ashtray division, or whether it was the electric blanket that turned savage later that day, grilling the G.M. president in a waffle pattern and creating a top-level vacancy for that bright young product-development exec, Adam Trenton...
...troubled by the line's inability to master Joe Restic's new variations of blocking. "Now we have this psychological barrier and it's touch to shake mistakes off. Before everything gels, everyone will have to regain the same self-confidence he had at the end of last year," Hevern diagnosed...
...other. In Viet Nam Davison once said, "I think you have to discriminate in favor of and overcompensate for the blacks." At his new headquarters in Heidelberg, he insists: "We should be able to create conditions in which the black soldier can feel that he is getting a fair shake." Davison has also continued the use of flying squads, originated under his predecessor, which make unannounced visits to units to check on discriminatory practices. The squads will be supervised by his new deputy chief of staff for personnel, Major General Frederic E. Davison, who also happens to be the Army...
...across the Oval Room and said: "Wally, you're a strong man, and I'd like to be just as strong when I tell you what I'm going to tell you." Then Nixon fired Hickel. "I got up to leave," Hickel recalls. "I did not shake hands with the President, but not out of bitterness. I didn't think of it. I felt so clean and totally free...