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Both Piper and Cornelius belong to a flock of Britons fascinated by the dream of man-powered flight and undeterred by a fearsome failure rate that goes back to Icarus. At Selsey Bill, Sussex, this month, twelve birdmen gathered to contend for a $2,400 prize offered by the local Royal Air Force Association to the first man to fly 50 yards under his own power. Some 6,000 turned up to watch contestants take off from a 25-ft.-high platform at the end of a lifeboat jetty. No one was injured, but the splashdowns rivaled...
...this summer's slow recovery are learning a new truth about pensions. Buried in the fine print of many labor contracts and corporate retirement plans is a clause stating that an employee's pension is not "vested" -that is, his employer's contributions do not belong to him-until he has worked for the company a score or more years. If he switches jobs or unions before then, or is laid off, or if his company goes bankrupt, he is left with nothing but Social Security...
...Guild, Tenn. But for more than a century a rather quaint controversy has cooked over whether an 1811 surveyor made a southward error -thrown off by a forest fire and Indian harassment-and gave Tennessee and North Carolina some 300 sq. mi. of mountainous woods that actually belong to Georgia...
DeCavalcante: Joe Colombo. Where's a guy like that belong in the Commission? What experience...
...course the Lexington sit-in seems mild in comparison to May day in Washington. But significantly, both demonstrations claim to belong to the class of nonviolent actions, the tactic which Gene Sharp discusses in Exploring Nonviolent Alternatives. The book is a starting-point for a systematic study of the possibilities for nonviolence in political conflicts. Although not terribly well-written, it is a provocative monograph, presenting some interesting ideas which might easily be developed and applied by activist groups in this country...