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Henry's trio aims to get out of the barely black and into the wider blue. The merged lines promise to pare expenses by cutting out competing ticket offices in some 25 cities and by ending route duplications. By building up their fleets, which now include Fairchild F-27 turboprops and Douglas DC-9 short-haul jets, they hope for rich runs to Hawaii and to Mexican resorts...
...military overseer of the Viet Nam war, asking for more effective bombing in the North. Other politicians, ranging from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield to Republican Presidential Hopeful Charles Percy, pointed up the threat of Chinese and/or Russian involvement in the war as a result of the wider bombing. For the hawks, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford took an opposite position: "Why are we pulling our punches...
...they foresee the day when a few standardized reels of tape will begin to replace programmers at the simpler levels. Still, few in the industry expect competent technicians to face unemployment. If today's pattern holds, every new triumph in computer technique will only fortify the demand for wider applications. The saturation point for computers is as yet nowhere in sight...
...morning after its swift and stunning victory in the "Six Day War," Israel awoke to vastly wider horizons and vastly expanded responsibilities. Suddenly the writ of Jerusalem had been extended over lands three times Is rael's prewar size, and over hostile Arab populations amounting to 1,330,000 people-nearly half Israel's own. How long would Israel want to hang onto such problems...
...Prisons. As an exile in Germany from the Russian Revolution, Nabokov commanded a relatively tiny public in emigre circles. When he went to America before World War II, he painstakingly learned every nuance of English and translated his works back and forth in an effort to find a wider audience. He achieved notoriety before legitimate fame in 1958 with Lolita, and Field argues that the book, in which 42-year-old Humbert Humbert lusts for a child of twelve, would not have shocked nearly so much if readers had understood Nabokov's deeper preoccupations...