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Halaby originally hoped to select a planemaker and enginemaker by May 1, but the recommendations of his staff will probably compel him to extend the competition for another year. During this time no prototypes will be built, but each contestant will produce more detailed studies to enable the FAA and the airlines to make a final choice. Though the extension may delay the date when an American SST enters commercial service to 1973, two years later than the already abuilding Anglo-French Concorde, most U.S. aviation experts feel that the additional study will help avoid costly mistakes...
...know Clay, and hold no especial brief for him, but I insist that as a freeborn American citizen he has the right to associate himself with any group, even if they do not believe in the current craze to utilize the federal power to compel race mixing in every area of life. We have come to a pretty pass in this country, where a man who conscientiously believes in separation of the races is to be penalized and denied his rights on account of his beliefs...
...Parents often choose a residence with the quality and accessibility of schools in mind. Would it not violate their personal freedom to compel them to send their children to schools distant from their homes? If it can work its will in this way, what is to prevent a government controlled by a racial minority from requiring that neighborhood housing and neighborhood schools both be regulated so as to maintain a fixed racial balance? Why not a religious or class or status balance? Why should suburban children not be bussed by state governments to schools in the central cities and slum...
Board member J. Carrell Morris, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Chemistry, said that the Board had also waited for Gerould's opinion about the suit now in court to compel the anti-fluoridation forces to disclose the sources of the funds they used in their campaign...
This is the worst aspect of Spears' book: it does not compel you to refer to Auden's exciting verse itself. And even if Spears' reticence about the poet's life was conceived with a sense of decorum, the questions it leaves un-answered are much...