Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, November 6, 1993 TAG: 9311060080
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A6 EDITION: STATE
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WASHINGTON - Two Southern metropolitan areas were the apparent winners Friday in an unusual competition to become takeoff points for prized air routes to London.
The Clinton administration tentatively chose Nashville, Tenn., and the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area as gateways for new service by American Airlines to the British capital. A final decision will be made by the Transportation Department after it reviews public comments, due Nov. 22. The air service is scheduled to begin April 1.
The losers in the competition were Salt Lake City and Delta Air Lines.
Officials said they awarded the air routes based on the expected benefits to the flying public and the metropolitan areas that will become gateways.
The department also said North Carolina and Tennessee are home respectively to 510 and 172 European-owned businesses that likely will help generate air traffic to London. - Associated Press
\ Roadkill Helper fails to tickle the General
MINNEAPOLIS - The jokes about Hamburger Helper are pretty stale by now and General Foods still isn't amused. It's suing the maker of a gag product called Roadkill Helper, alleging trademark infringement.
Kevin Johnson, president of Gag Foods of Woodland Park, Colo., says he got his idea after he and his son saw "National Lampoon's Vacation," the 1983 movie starring Chevy Chase that included several Hamburger Helper jokes.
Roadkill Helper contains only about a penny's worth of macaroni - "just enough so the box rattles and stands up straight," Johnson said. And it comes in a box that resembles Hamburger Helper.
In a U.S. District Court lawsuit filed last month, Golden Valley-based General Mills said consumers will be confused by the products, jeopardizing trademarks that cost $500 million to build.
Christopher Sandberg, Gag's attorney, said Roadkill is a parody, a protected form of expression under the First Amendment. "It's the price of being famous," he said. - Associated Press
by CNB