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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is one hitch. Although the FAA's precedent-setting regulations for jumbo jets go into effect on Dec. 1, the Boeing 747s-which in February will become the first (by 21 months) to start flying passenger runs-will be temporarily exempt. Reason: Boeing applied for certification of the 747 one year before the agency began drafting its noise laws and is too far along in production of the jumbos to meet the FAA deadline. Result: no less noise for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noise: Muffling the Jet | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Gods do not make bricks, of course -or build sun domes, or scramble for sassafras in the shrubbery of Central Park. But for people who do, or want to, the Whole Earth Catalog is an almost inexhaustible compendium. Although it is specifically aimed at "technological dropouts" (in the words of its authors), the catalogue's phenomenal success shows that it has a far vaster range of appeal. It is a sort of Sears, Roe-buck-Consumer Report for the minorities of the cybernetic age-from activists who want to improve the environment or create a Utopian society to abdicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Styles: Missal for Mammals | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Although the Whole Earth Catalog is selling briskly across the U.S. and abroad, it may soon become a collector's item. Brand plans to cease publication in 1971. "If by that time there aren't people and ideas around doing a better job than we have, then we'll have failed," he says. Brand expects to keep the Truck Store operating as a mail-order service, but his personal plans are indefinite-to say the least. "I may just spend a while having fantasies," he says. "But 1971 is a long time from now -like a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Styles: Missal for Mammals | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Although Mencken shared the fate of the successful satirist-to perish with his enemies-he had fun, while he could, slaying philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Mencken added to the gaiety of nations; he was a great man with a custard pie. Puritanism, the genteel tradition in fiction, Prohibition and even that "Bible of the booboisie and boost-erism"-the Saturday Evening Post -all became his targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun Among the Philistines | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard hopes to keep its record setting unbeaten streak intact, Yale offers plenty of threats on which to concentrate. Although the Elis' season record is only 4-3-3, that statistic is very misleading. favorable advantages. Unfortunately for Yale, the Bulldogs' personnel has been physically getting the breaks, Entering its seventh game of the season, the Elis had ten starters sitting on the bench with a variety of afflictions...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Healthy Bulldog Booters Threaten To End Crimson's Unbeaten Streak | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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