Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Adolf A. Berle Jr., 76, lawyer, economist, diplomat and charter member of F.D.R.'s New Deal Brain Trust; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Brilliant, often acerbic, Berle passed Harvard's entrance exams at 12, graduated cum laude from Harvard Law at the age of 21 and after the war opened a successful law practice that he continued until his death. But it was through Government service that he attained national prominence. As counsel to F.D.R.'s Reconstruction Finance Corp. from 1933-38, Berle helped shape much of the legislation designed to reform banking, railroading...
...somewhat idealistic hope that residents of a depressed area, if given the funds, could devise programs to upgrade their neighborhoods, all with a bare minimum of outside assistance. In Cambridge, more than in most areas, the compact size of the selected neighborhood, in addition to a carefully-phrased original charter, provided an unusual amount of true resident autonomy and direction of the program. But even here the agency was really run by the professional staff of outsiders and pseudo-residents, who, although sincere, creative, and effective, are not products of the area they champion. Model Cities in its two years...
...retaliate against Ecuador, cut off military aid, which came to $4,500,000 last year. "Aggression!" exclaimed Ecuador, though there seemed something faintly odd in using that particular word to describe cutting off military supplies. The Ecuadoreans claim, however, that such sanctions violate the Organization of American States charter by applying improper economic pressure. Despite Washington's objections, the OAS voted 22 to 0 to convene a foreign ministers' meeting last weekend on the dispute. (The U.S. abstained in the voting.) Whatever happens, the U.S. has finally offered to join Ecuador in submitting the matter to the International...
...strike with its customary equanimity and ingenuity. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Christopher Chataway suspended the post office's century-old monopoly on letter and parcel handling and invited private operators to deliver the mail. Almost immediately, independent operators, dubbed "pirates" by the press, mobilized horses, courier vans, charter aircraft, pigeons and even the members of motorcycle gangs...
...American scheduled airlines in all of 1970. So superb a safety record suggests that something much closer to complete safety in the air may not be impossible. But as the still-grieving campuses of Marshall University and Wichita State University attest, it was a disastrously imperfect year for nonscheduled charter flights...