
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 14, 1990                   TAG: 9007160174
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY PUT

WE HADN'T heard that Americans are getting smaller. But The Wall Street Journal reports that many airlines have told aircraft manufacturers to shrink seat width from 22 inches to 19, and leg room between seat rows from 34 inches to 31.

Three inches here, three inches there, and pretty soon you're talking about space for another passenger. Meantime, there's no indication ticket prices will shrink.

JERRY FALWELL has fallen off the wagon. A few months after swearing off politics and disbanding the Moral Majority, the Lynchburg pastor has endorsed Jesse Helms' re-election to the U.S. Senate - and lent his name to a fund-raising effort.

In Virginia, conservative politicians have come to look on Falwell's blessing as the kiss of death - one reason, perhaps, he renounced politics last year. But bad habits die hard.

by CNB