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...last laugh, however, seems to belong to Braniff President Harding Lawrence, 45, who took over the airline a year ago last week and is responsible for the color splash. Braniff is getting more attention than other airlines, and operating statistics show it. Passengers increased 18% last year to 3,370,000; revenues also rose 18%, to $129 million, and earnings were up 58% to $9,400,000. Within the year, Braniff stock rose from $25 to $125, and stockholders last week happily approved a two for one split...
...Chief Tom Wicker, the piece was based on a handout: a statement calling for a more liberalized U.S. policy toward Communist China, including eventual diplomatic recognition and admission to the United Nations. Wicker emphasized that the statement had been signed by "198 academic experts on China," all of whom belong to the Association for Asian Studies. Happy to have so many experts agreeing with its own position, the Times applauded in an editorial: "The statement on China by 198 Asian scholars-opposed by only 19 other members of the Association for Asian Studies-shows where the weight of informed American...
...inaccurate^" Gosling estimated that only one-third of the signers could be considered China experts. By paying $15-a-year dues, anyone who demonstrates an interest in Asia can join the association; members range from anthropologists to theologians to librarians. Moreover, charged Gosling, some of the signers do not belong to the association; nor was the entire membership contacted and given a chance to sign the paper. "It was disorganized," says Gosling. "They sent letters to people they knew who shared similar views, and these people sent the material on to others who generally were in agreement...
...campus, Greek societies lost 20% of their members in five years, while undergraduate enrollment rose 13%. On some campuses, fraternities are numerically as strong as ever, but everywhere students take Greek membership much less seriously. "For the first time a student can feel he neither should-nor should not-belong to a fraternity," says Ohio State's Dean John Bonner...
...good rest; for the mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for those privileges, and never housekeep any more." Yet, aside from a tantalizing shipboard glimpse of a Honolulu quarantined by cholera in 1895, he never found his way back...