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...government assented in February, Laker's three red, white and black DC-10s are now cleared to begin flying passengers Sept. 26 at the lowest fares ever quoted: $236 round trip, v. $631 for a 14-to 21-day summer excursion fare and up to $379 for a charter ticket on competing lines...
...British lines would have to suspend all regularly scheduled flights between the two countries. At week's end, U.S. carriers were making contingency plans to land London-bound passengers in Amsterdam or Paris. Even then, Laker Airways would not be grounded; it could continue its busy charter service...
...that egregious myth, the Renaissance Man. Only his socialist convictions made him turn down the post of Poet Laureate after Tennyson died. He translated the Icelandic sagas into English, wrote News from Nowhere, one of the best Utopian novels in the history of that genre, and was a charter member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. With John Ruskin, he was an influential agitator for maintaining the integrity of the architectural past; dozens of developers and architectural opportunists had cause to fear the voice of the Anti-Scrape, as Morris called his Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings...
Delegates to last week's I.P.I. meeting in Oslo generally deplored UNESCO's intrusion into the developmental-journalism debate, which some of them claimed violates the agency's charter and lends unwarranted legitimacy to Third World press-bashing. Many Western journalists admit, however, that their coverage of the developing world could be improved. U.P.I., for instance, has more full-time correspondents in London (14) than in all of Latin America (12), and NBC does not maintain a bureau anywhere in Africa. "We concede that an imbalance of information exists in some parts of the world," says U.P.I...
...they witness the emergence of such trends, saying that the absence of fulltime tenured faculty members in Afro--coupled with Southern's alleged refusal to formally meet with students--deny concentrators the kind of access to the depart- ment's decision making process as mandated in Afro's charter. The issue of full-time tenured Afro faculty opens up still another Pandora's box of troubles in the department, controversies that can be reduced to two basic developments: the introduction of joint tenure appointments in Afro over the last few years and the case of Isaac, which underscores the tenure...