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Subbed ÛÏmoonmanÛ by eimployes who viewed the former astronautÛªs ascend-ancyat Eastern with amusement at first, Borman now.seems to have general respect, almost awe, from employes and close observers of the once-derided carrier for the extra-terrestial efforts he has made onits behalf and the apparent successes he has had in altering the companyÛªs course[away from what many, believed to be certain bankruptcy.	I	ÐÊ	Ûª	ÐÊ/..	<lr	Û¢</br></br>After a dismal 20-year performanceÛÓin winch the airline took in $17.1billion in revenues and lost $!19.2 millionÛÓthe company has experienced a turnaround since , Borman took tfie controls in December 1975..Eastern reported record profits in the.two last years-^$45.2 million in .1976 and $317, million in 1977.</br></br>What progress he has performed has been due to his relentlessness in-trying to improve the airlineÛªs service to its customers; its employe; fuel and aircraft productivity; its route system and its balance sheet. To trim the fat, he has taken a Û¢	The 69 top officials Borman inherited have been shaved to 38. Now ten of them report directly to Borman. There are today 760 fewer in the management ranks than there were a few years ago. There were so many layers of management at Eastern that officials used to joke that there was a vice president in charge of the vice presidents. Now, many of the vice presidents, and the layers, are gone: Instead of a pyramid structure, Borman has ten top vice presidents report directly to him. The building directory on the main floor of the now-very-plain corporate headquarters here, once filled with the names of executives, contains more spaces than names.</br></br>Û¢	Borman closed the New York branch of the corporate headquarters, bringing everyone down to MiamiÛÓeveryone who was coming down-ending what many in the company call the ÛÏtwo-headed monster styleÛ of management that had characterized the company before, when a vice president in New York would order something and a vice president in Miami would order the opposite.</br></br>cials joke about the time some of Eastern's lenders came down from New York to Û¢discuss the companyÛªs precarious financial situation after Borman took over and were chauffered to the meeting site by EasternÛªs top brass using their own cars: a Ûª67 Firebird, a later model Gremlin, and BormanÛªs '69 Camaro, with 100,000 miles on it.