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There is even a move afoot among the lines to charge first-class passengers for drinks. And the airlines have asked permission from the CAB to raise their fares by 10%. Higher fares may discourage even more people from flying, but the industry is in such straits that permission will probably be granted...
There is a proposal afoot to bring the Center for International Affairs' (CFIA) Development Advisory Service (DAS) "closer to the Harvard community," Robert Dorfman, professor of Economies, said yesterday...
...recognizes that an effort is afoot to dismantle it, led by rebellious youth. Though he approves of their yearning to reestablish contact with organic life, Mumford is too rigorous a thinker to believe that their movement offers a serious alternative to the megamachine. It is too machinelike itself, with youth running in herds that differ little from those that cram corporation offices. Theirs is not a new consciousness but a very ancient and dubious one: a primordial desire to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. But a new start, says Mumford, requires people who have digested...
Still, most major acts of violence against the police are probably not deliberate or planned terrorism. They appear to be the work of isolated, unstable individuals. If there is not a conspiracy afoot in the classic sense, however, senior law-enforcement officials do feel that there is a kind of climate of incitement that is new. Since many of the incidents have taken place in black ghettos, some top cops point to the influence of the Black Panthers. Says a top law-enforcement official: "This isn't a case of some Panther big shot telling the party chapters that...
John Kennedy learned skepticism about intelligence estimates-and how difficult it is to keep Government secrets -the hard way, from the Bay of Pigs. Eighteen months later, during the Cuban missile crisis, everyone well-connected in Washington knew something was afoot, but no one outside his inner circle was aware of what the reconnaissance photos showed until Kennedy made his announcement on television. Even so, J.F.K. once reflected: "I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times...