Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles C. Tillinghast, president of Trans World Airlines, last week called for industry-wide sessions on the crisis. He suggested shifting rush-hour flights to outlying terminals. More drastic was his proposal to end rush hour itself by changing schedules. By week's end the Civil Aeronautics Board authorized the talks. Airliners soon may be diverted at peak hours from congested airports, and passengers on peak-hour flights may have to pay premium rates. The industry blames the glut partly on private planes, but barring them from major airports would hardly dent the crush. At Kennedy, they make...
...second time in 14 months of cruel civil war, Nigeria's federal government and Biafra's secessionist regime were edging toward peace talks last week. Meeting in Niamey, capital of Niger, under the aegis of the Organization for African Unity, the warring parties promised to undertake a second try at a full-scale peace conference in Addis Ababa on Aug. 5. At the very least the Biafran leader, Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, hopes to achieve a temporary ceasefire. For Biafra desperately needs a respite in the bitter...
...exclusively colored black. The July issue covered the funeral of Bobby Kennedy by running photos of the prominent Negroes who attended: Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes, Rafer Johnson, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., among others. The accompanying story was a perceptive account of Bobby's growth as a civil rights leader. In a previous issue, U.S. Senators got their pictures in the magazine only because they happen to frequent the Senate restaurant presided over by a Negro maitre d'hotel, Robert Parker Jr. Said the story: "Even for Senator Richard Russell (D., Ga.), who is not noted...
...Hubert Humphrey is a great leader because, among other qualities, he is a great educator of the American public. His innovating role in the areas of disarmament and arms control, civil rights, social development and international economic and political cooperation testify to his capacity for creative leadership. We believe he will be an outstanding President...
...letter to the draft board members, the signers ask them to follow the lead of Roscoe N. Coburn, chairman of the Concord, N. H. board, who recently resigned after 20 years of service, saying we are "embroiled in an Oriental civil war in which both sides are against us economically and militarily... I want no further part in the conscription of our youth who, either willingly or unwillingly, will serve in the cesspool otherwise known as Vietnam...