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...loss of revenue that it suffered last summer in a twelve-day wildcat strike. The line is also carrying a heavy jet debt. It chose to begin writing off its $140 million debt for its new jet fleet before all the planes were delivered, must bear the brunt of the payments (the monthly interest charge alone is $583,000) without having the jets in service to help pay for themselves. It has also been hurt more than the other airlines by the Electra's troubles since it has the largest (40) fleet. The cost of operating the Electras...
Strange Slop. As one of the famed "Eight" of Manhattan's Ashcan School, Prendergast bore the brunt of the attacks on the 1908 Ashcan show* that marked the first revolt against the formal nudes and innocuous landscapes that dominated turn-of-the-century U.S. art. Outraged by his fantasy, critics inveighed against Prendergast's paintings as "whirling arabesques that tax the eye." "unadulterated slop," and "the product of much cider drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle...
Said Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who will carry the brunt of the load in the Senate drive for repeal: "As much as some Americans may dislike it, the U.S. has been thrust into the center of world affairs. Either we move to strengthen the mechanisms of world peace -of which the World Court is a conspicuous example-or we continue to suffer increasingly the frustrations of a world in which there is no real peace...
...looks in the direction of a solution to school financing problems in states besides New York. Education, which takes up the largest part of most town budgets, usually finds itself at the mercy of a town's conservative elements--property owners who have no children and must bear the brunt of bond issues and tax rises. Whether in state or local taxes, specialized groups in society bear the major part of the educational burden...
Once the Allies secured the Normandy landings, the Americans again got in the way. Why were they always complaining about cautious, tidy Montgomery when he was really taking the brunt of the battle? (The fact is that many military men, including Germans, feel that Monty could have taken his major objective, Caen, in the first days if he had chosen to move instead of sitting.) After the breakout, Brookie was again peeved. Why didn't Ike let Monty take the bulk of the armies and finish off the Germans in the Ruhr? Instead, Ike insisted on forming up along...