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...state. Many Virginia precincts and districts have their first Republican organizations in history, and the party has produced a bumper crop of legislative candidates: 14 for the 40-member state senate, 51 for the 100-man house. During a 24-hour statewide tour last week, Holton and Nixon drew bigger crowds in many towns than any other Republicans have mustered in Virginians' memory...
...dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences: "Keppel won the respect of his faculty and my snobbish faculty, who tended to scoff at deans of education. He is a man who has grown on every job he's had-and left each a bigger job than it was." In 1962, John Kennedy invited Keppel to take on the Commissioner's job. In their first informal chat, Jack asked: "Weren't you in my brother Joe's class?" "Yes," replied Keppel. "Didn't you run against Joe for some office?" "Yes, for class...
Mass transportation is also a promising field: the bigger, better helicopters being proven out today may some day fly Washington-New York or Los Angeles-San Francisco routes with almost the speed of fixed-wing aircraft and with the added advantage of being able to land downtown. Pioneer Igor Sikorsky, who has been building helicopters for 56 years and recently sent his Skycrane to Viet Nam, believes the day is coming when helicopters carrying 100 passengers or more will serve the same function as buses and commuter trains...
However, he said, if strong additions are made to the upper-level Gen Ed offerings, the entire program would become "bigger and better--with more flexibility...
Toughest Scramble. The C-5A carries a message for the U.S. aerospace industry: Government contracts from now on are apt to be fewer and bigger -and cost more just to compete for. Vastly increased costs of development, and the Pentagon's desire to avoid duplication, have already severely reduced the number of Government contracts and set the $20.7 billion aerospace industry off on the toughest competitive scramble in its history. Still, the rewards are so great that airframe companies have no choice but to compete...