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...Manila. "There's nothing wrong with a civil servant providing for his future," claimed Garcia, who as Vice President willingly inherited the leadership of one of Asia's most graft-ridden countries when flamboyant Anti-Corruption Crusader Ramón Magsaysay was killed in a 1957 plane crash. Though Garcia had pledged an "all-out war" against graft, during his administration there were nearly 30,000 recorded cases of corruption in the Philippines-a fact used by Diosclado Macapagal to help unseat Garcia in the 1961 elections...
Nineteen months had passed without a single fatal crash of a scheduled airliner in the U.S., a safety record unprecedented in commercial aviation. But last week, in the inexplicable pattern that seems to govern such disasters, two airliners went down, one on each coast, killing a total of 78 persons. Twenty-eight of them died when an Allegheny Airlines twin jet crashed in a swamp near Connecticut's Tweed-New Haven Airport. Another 50 were killed in the collision of a Hughes Air West DC-9 and a Navy F-4 Phantom jet over California's San Gabriel...
...Both crashes raised ominous and specific questions. Two years ago, the Air Line Pilots Association called Tweed-New Haven Airport one of the nation's ten most dangerous, and last week the airport manager said that the crash would not have occurred if the airport had been equipped with an instrument-landing system. In California, some witnesses said that the Phantom, from the El Toro Marine Air Station, had been making barrel rolls-stunt flying-before it collided with the airliner, which was on its correct path from Los Angeles International Airport. It remains for the sole survivor...
More important is the questionable future of the F14. Costs aside, production of the fighter fell six to nine months behind schedule after a hydraulic-system failure caused the first prototype to crash last Dec. 30. Though company designers are convinced that the defect has been corrected, the plane has also been hampered by delays in development of its advanced-model Pratt & Whitney engine. An influential group of Congressmen has urged the Pentagon to scrap plans for any new fighters and concentrate instead on updating McDonnell-Douglas' widely acclaimed F-4 Phantom. At one point last week, reports TIME...
...retain their sense of character, the class has attempted to steer the course of their Reunion onto a somewhat less frivolous route than might be expected. A crash course of seminars and panels has been organized to tell them where students are at and where administrators intend them to go. (Topics range from "Have We Moved Backward or Forward in 25 Years?", a Winthrop House discussion led by Physics professor Gerald Holton, to "The Spiraling Costs of Higher Education and How To Pay For It," by John Dunlop, Dean of the Faculty...