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Less Crowding. What is the argument all about? Aboard the 14 Boeing 720s that United has already converted into one-class service, five passengers are seated abreast instead of the uncomfortably crowded six in jet coach service; the cabin is free of the usual class-dividing partitions. The new seats are two inches wider than in coach, and the leg room between seat rows has been slightly increased. A one-class 720 seats 109 passengers, ten fewer than in the usual two classes. Three stewardesses serve the passengers instead of the four on mixed planes. The meals are free...
...repechage, actually, produced the best race so far. Leverett and Adams, after moving somewhat ahead of Kirkland and Dunster, went into the last hundred yards nearly abreast, matching stroke for stroke. With both crews expecting that only the winner would be eligible for this afternoon's final. Adams gradually cut down the four or five foot Leverett lead, at the same time angling closer and closer to the Bunny eight...
Your article on Surgery [May 3] tops the already superior efforts of your magazine to keep abreast of medical progress...
...Deane Edwards, president of the 2,000-member Hymn Society of America, argues that "hymnody must be kept abreast of the life of the church.'' But in replacing Victorian flotsam, hymnal makers have cautiously steered away from abrupt modernization, or harmonies more discordant than Brahms's. Instead, they have subtly blended, like the bride's trousseau, something old, something borrowed, something...
...received standing applause from some 3,600 persons-four times the number that turned out for a lecture in December by Georgia's newly elected Governor, Carl Sanders, a moderate segregationist. Warren's serious talk on the relations between science and law ("Law has not kept abreast of science . . . A world without law is hell-bent for destruction with or without scientific discoveries") drew long applause at its end. There were no pickets, no boos, no threats...