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...equal; as long as the average white Southerner feels set upon from without, he will take revenge on the Negro in those tiny affairs: the idle salesgirl who lets him stand unattended for five minutes; the white taxi driver who doesn't see him trying to flag a cab; the teacher who doesn't go out of his way to help a colored child; the service-station attendant who services everyone else's car before he gets around to the Negro's. The goal of reform should be fair treatment of everyone by everyone else...
There was something of the leaping lamb and the bounding colt in Christopher that first year. Not only did he hurdle car hoods (including a slow-moving cab one time in the Square), but he also leaped over whole rows of parking meting. On the way to dinner in the Union, regularly did a bow-legged straddle hop ever the chest-high obelisk in front Boylston Hall...
...board, the kids often fly first class, demand all the frills, including free drinks (which they cannot have unless 21), that the old folks get. When they get "bumped" by adult passengers at intermediate stops, their angry parents keep airline phones tied up trying to locate them. Currently under CAB consideration is Delta's proposal to cut down the abuses and inconveniences by offering the kids reserved flights at two-thirds the normal fare. Privately, Delta and the other carriers wish that Sadler had kept his brain child to himself...
Experts figure that they could reduce the number of crash deaths by 50% if they could prevent fires. The airlines, the military, the FAA, CAB and NASA are all hard at work on just that problem. They are developing a "very promising" jellied fuel that burns slowly and does not leak from ruptured tanks. The Pentagon and the FAA are experimenting with "tough wall" tanks made of nylon and polyurethane; when a tough-wall helicopter was slammed against a jagged rock at 100 Gs, the crash left only a one-eighth-inch crack. Airlines are also experimenting with a fire...
...memory like a Pentagon computer," says Schlissel. "Carries it all in his head. Twenty, 30 projects at once. Never forgets a fact, never misses a trick." With his office in his head, Merrick is totally mobile. On an after-dinner impulse, he may dart into the street, grab a cab, race to Kennedy Airport, jump on a jet to London, snap up a property in Manchester, get back to New York in less than 48 hours...