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...went to buy a ticket on the helicopter service. The girl at the counter asked me to spell my name. 'Oh,' she said, 'you spell it like our helicopter.' " Exactly. Aviation Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, 76, reminisced about the romance and passion of flying at a banquet honoring the father of the helicopter. "My first one was more vibration, dust and noise," he laughed, "and it couldn't fly. But now as an old man and as a designer, I am pleased most that altogether the helicopter has saved more than 100,000 persons from death...
Nader, speaking before the annual banquet of the Harvard Student Legislative Research Burcau, said that present standards, as suggested by Congressional resolutions, were inadequate...
...birthstone ring given to her by another, Associate Minister of National Defense Pierre Sevigny, whose "frequent companion" she had been from 1958 to 1960. She had visited Sevigny in his suite in Ottawa's Beacon Arms Hotel, entertained him in her own apartment in Montreal, attended an election banquet with him, even flown in a government plane with him to Boston "for the races." She had, she admitted, become involved with a "medium-time" Montreal racketeer. But had she been a spy? Never...
...Perhaps his, most influential supporter is Boston's Mayor John Collins. While Collins has never openly endorsed him, the Mayor has given subtle indications of appreciation for Eisenstadt's recent efforts to improve the image of the city's schools. Last month, for example, Collins predicted at a Boston banquet that Eisenstadt would rise to a position of still greater power in city government. This statement could only mean that the Mayor envisions the School Committee's chairman as his likely successor...
...particular danger posed by Hitler was banished to the history books, but Niebuhr's Christianity and Crisis found enough troubling issues to keep right on publishing. This week the magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary by sponsoring a colloquium on mankind's present crisis and a banquet at which the main speaker will be Longtime Reader Hubert Humphrey...