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...entitled to compensation: generally a place on a later flight and a free ticket good for a future round trip on any of People's U.S. routes. All airlines overbook, but People is the worst offender. About ten to twelve passengers per 10,000 are bumped from People flights, twice the industry average. The airline's executives justify the practice by saying that many customers who make reservations do not show...
Veeck, who genially described himself as a hustler and publicity hound, owned major league teams four times: the Browns, the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox (twice). His usual approach was to buy a rundown franchise, spruce up the ball park, then operate the team on the cheap while raising cash through promotions. Veeck had firm theories on how to promote. If you want to give away 50,000 beers, he once said, give them all to one fan--it will generate far more interest and conversation...
...rule, foreigners were allowed to enter Burma for all of 24 hours; these days the government issues seven-day tourist visas, though it manages to keep the influx down to a steady trickle of around 100 visitors a day. With a population of 36 million, Burma has more than twice as many citizens as Australia; yet the entire country has only a third as many hotel rooms as the Las Vegas Hilton. Along the road to Mandalay, the nation's second city, locals pedal away furiously in trishaws, and in Pagan, the nation's great temple-filled tourist site...
...imperfection that may appear in it. I therefore take the occasion, in writing to you out of Africa, to say that your review of the new film Out of Africa [CINEMA, Dec. 16] is wrong in saying that Karen Blixen never mentions her husband in her book. She does, twice. Peter S. Bridges U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Mogadishu...
...that holds his body. The list of prominent visitors was to include South Africa's Bishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Edward Kennedy and Vice President George Bush. "I wish Dr. King were here," gushed nine-year-old Akelia Cobb, excited by all the commotion. "Boy, I'd get his autograph twice...