Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been interested in NSA as an undergraduate, but only mildly active"), and at the NSA congress in August was elected international vice president, "really a full time job." He tried keeping tutorial through the fall but found the combination impossible. "I remember calling once from Chicago to cancel a meeting." And anyway Sigmund wanted to go to South Africa and write a report on segregation in the universities there. "I got as far as Europe, but the South African government refused me a visa so the trip has to be scrapped...
...danger that Soviet progress in antiaircraft missiles will cancel out SAC's power has been largely overcome by U.S. progress in air-to-ground missiles, which will enable bombers to fire at targets hundreds of miles away. Most promising: the 500-mile nuclear Hound Dog. Under development are new Hound Dog versions with ranges up to 1,000 miles...
...Reservations. An electronic reservations system that can instantly tell Western Air Lines ticket clerks throughout its U.S. system what seats are available on all flights was put into operation, the first in the airline industry. Built around a memory drum, the system permits 96 reservations desks to book and cancel flights, immediately inform passengers of schedule changes...
Ironically, many seats went empty on planes. Thousands of passengers booked seats on several airlines in hopes of getting on just one. then forgot to cancel. One major line had 600 no-shows in one city. This left space aplenty for stand-by passengers, who had the patience and courage to wait at drafty airports for any space available. Actually, most travelers got where they wanted to go, but many had to wind around circuitous routes on odd carriers, arrived frazzled...
...workmanlike sentences bear no resemblance to Cozzens' involuted maze. Like Cozzens, O'Hara tries to strike a balance sheet on a man's life at the mid-century mark. With Cozzens, O'Hara seems to agree that the assets and liabilities all but cancel out, leaving a chilling desolation of spirit in which futility is challenged only by fatalism. Of Alfred Eaton, as of Cozzens' Arthur Winner, it can be said that he achieves a kind of strength through joylessness except that with O'Hara's Eaton the licked wounds never quite heal...