Letters, Jul. 26, 1971

Free Rock-Throwing

Sir: When a chain store sets one price for its product in a ghetto area and a lower price in a white suburban location, people are properly outraged.

When an airline charges a 25-year-old $200 for a flight to Europe and asks a middle-aged citizen to pay $600, the champions of fair play are strangely silent.

It's ironic that the victims of this outrageous discrimination do most of the work in our society and pay most of the taxes required to support the facilities used by these airlines.

As long as we're too...

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