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...suspend jet traffic completely during certain hours; in Montreal and London, no jet flights move between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. But appeasing the neighborhood complainers can add to the pilot's problems. At Idlewild, for example, planes using Runway 31-Left are ordered to climb sharply and turn sharp left seconds after take-off to avoid passing over populous Jamaica-which is exactly the procedure followed by the American Airlines jet that crashed into Jamaica Bay (see SCIENCE...
...Geneva next week so that the 18-nation disarmament talks would, in his chummy phrase, "start in the right direction." No major power succumbed, but both the U.S. and Britain warmed slightly to the notion of a summit meeting, possibly in June, if preliminary discussion promises a worthwhile climb...
...stalwart outdoorsmen ski, explore caves, climb rocks, go mountaineering in the winter, and canoe; they are con stantly seeking now members to jeta them in their merriment...
...More Wedding Cakes. The CBS Building is one of the first to be built under New York's new zoning resolution, which rewards builders for foot-traffic space in the plaza by allowing a higher, unbroken climb. The old zoning resolution required setbacks as the building rose, and cursed the city with scores of massive wedding cakes that filled their building sites to the sidewalks and threw away all sense of height...
...victim was former Interior Minister and Deputy Premier Rudolf Barak, 47, whose climb up the Red rungs of success had been remarkably fast. Although he did not join the party until 1945, nine years later he was Deputy Premier, chief of the secret police and a member of the Politburo. Barak also has an unusual nonpolitical record-as a championship pole vaulter, theater buff, especially of avant-garde plays, and fan of "forbidden" jazz records that his two teen-age sons often brought back from France and Italy...