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...most popular, and competitive, routes. With industry losses worldwide projected at some $2 billion, 1982 has been one of the worst in airline history. Yet not all airlines are finding the skies unfriendly, and not all flights are cheap. Piedmont Airlines, a rapidly growing regional carrier based in Winston-Salem, N.C., has no trouble filling seats on the 317-mile flight from Myrtle Beach, S.C., to Atlanta, for instance, even William Howard though the lowest round-trip fare is $148. One reason: no other airline connects those two cities. While its debt-ridden, giant competitors are struggling to balance their...
There may be no more difficult presidential task than determining when the time has come to reshape policy, to adopt new tactics and even to eat a few words. ("I have eaten a great many of mine," said Winston Churchill, "and on the whole, I have found them a most wholesome diet.") Every successful President eventually learns that flexibility is salvation. The presidential bone yard is strewn with markers of those who would not change...
...tactics. It just could be that Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August, was as important as the U.S. Navy. It could be, too, that Lord David Cecil, who wrote Kennedy's favorite book, Melbourne, the biography of the youthful Queen Victoria's Prime Minister, and Winston Churchill, in his role as chronicler of the life of his ancestor Marlborough, were as important as the trusted aides who kept long vigils in the White House that October...
...Winston Lord, who helped Kissinger engineer the original opening to China and who continues to follow the relationship closely as president of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, says that there will probably be "no real rapprochement" between China and the Soviet Union. Nor is China's willingness to resume negotiations "a crude playing of the Soviet card to make us nervous." Says Lord: "The Chinese are modestly repositioning themselves and hedging while they see whether the U.S. can get its own act together...
...Sailing is one of the few sports you can come into knowing absolutely nothing about it," explains Winston Tedd adding that though he capsized on his first day out with the team, he was racing regularly by mid-season...