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...most successful examples of student protest has made its point without a single sit-in. It all began last January when Arthur Present, a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner, recommended that the CAB end the airlines' "youth fares," which allow passengers from twelve to 22 to fly for half fare on a standby basis or for two-thirds fare with a reserved seat. Prodded partly by ailing intercity bus lines, Present found the discount fares "unjustly discriminatory." He did not reckon with the power of American students when they feel it is they who have suffered the discrimination...
...Congressmen. Bitter editorials began appearing in the campus press, and letters by the thousands rained on Congressmen and airline executives. Both the National Student Association and the Campus Americans for Democratic Action, the student arm of the liberal political organization, sent delegates to carry their protest to the CAB. Parents, who like to see more of their offspring for less money, also joined the campaign...
They were all there-Cab Calloway, Earl ("Fatha") Hines, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, J. J. Johnson, Gerry Mulligan and scores of others. It was not a Bourbon Street reunion of the jazz giants, nor were they stompin' at the Savoy. The man tinkling out Happy Birthday on the piano-with authority-was none other than a fellow named Dick Nixon, President of the U.S. "I've never seen the place like this," exclaimed a venerable White House butler as he distributed glasses of champagne from a silver tray. "It sure has lots of soul tonight...
...that the increase in black enrollment between 1964 and the present academic year could be comfortably accommodated in one standard English coach; and the suspicion that writers well-informed on the situation at American universities who contribute to the Times could be comfortably accommodated in one standard English mini-cab. Ian Martin GSAS
...extensive-if not always clearly defined-services in Southeast Asia. The line has at various times employed such Democratic stalwarts as Lloyd Hand, Pierre Salinger and Clark Clif ford's law firm. Nixon ordered all of Continental's awards canceled or deferred, partly on grounds that the CAB should authorize direct service to the South Pacific from points in the East and Midwest. That could open new horizons for financially ailing Eastern Air Lines, whose Pacific ambitions were endorsed by a CAB examiner but ignored by Johnson...