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...association of the two schools is "simple and honest," she said. "Radcliffe has its own governing board, endownment, and problems." We have a long way to go to get full acceptance into the University, she concluded, but we can and will attain our objective...
...operate its internal routes, but international flights to such points as Vienna, Rome, Geneva, Athens and Frankfurt would become a joint service. Together, as the planners see it, the three nations would be able to finance and fly new equipment and negotiate traffic rights that are difficult to attain alone in an increasingly complex air age. The backbone of the new line would probably be Pakistan International Airlines. One international run that profitable, government-owned PIA would continue to fly solo: its weekly flights from Dacca to Red China, which have been so successful that the line last week started...
...major characters, Bruce Kornbluth's York is very fine. He plays his part with a combination of hesitation and nobility that must be incredibly hard to attain. And, significantly I think, he makes his fantastic wig and makeup seem part of him, not just something stuck on to show...
...children are getting a grade school education, only 6% high school training. Concludes the Population Reference Bureau: "Until a new 'vital balance' is achieved-a low birth rate balancing a low death rate-economic progress and better living conditions for each citizen will be very difficult to attain, if not impossible...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. In this cheeky, stylish, often mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top, an aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) teaches a lowly British clerk (Alan Bates) how to attain Establishment status...