Word: deale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next Moves. Unless the Civil Aeronautics Board turns thumbs down or President-elect Nixon vetoes the deal, which he can do because flights to foreign countries are involved, Hughes will get back into a business for which he has long had an appetite. A pilot himself, he set speed and round-the-world flight records, and designed such innovations as retractable landing gears. But he has a dismal record of running airlines. In control of Northeast Airlines from 1962 to 1964, he sold out when the carrier was just short of bankruptcy. Under new management, Northeast recovered. From...
...power. In The Sleep of Reason, that same cool eye is cast on more amorphous matters as the author struggles with formulations about such things as free will, responsibility and human nature. Recently C. P. Snow informed the press that the eleventh and final Strangers and Brothers novel will deal with "death, judgment, heaven and hell." If The Sleep of Reason is any indication of Snow's ability to deal with speculative issues in fiction, the next novel will prove a rather tedious and drawn-out farewell to Lewis Eliot...
...sure to titillate and open the doors to a number of fashionable speculations-about the crime of punishment, about the existence of evil and the nature of man. Working them thematically for all they are worth, Snow has produced a book that is bound to provoke a great deal of reflection-but that is also a very bad novel...
...meeting also considered plans for a poll on power and the decision-making process at Harvard to be conducted next semester. Kaplan said the poll would deal with "questions we can draw long-term ideas from." He also urged new HUC members to help in setting up a symposium on power in the University which has been requested by the Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee...
Altogether there are about twenty bits, so a good deal of ground is covered in the much too short session. Some of the sketches are not as funny as others, but the great majority of them have a generous share of gags. Many fresh comic observations are brought to such topics as topless restaurants, Anglo-French rivalry, State Department press conferences, senility and even C. P. Snow ("known to writers as a scientist and known to scientists as a writer"). One of the longest and funniest monologues is that of a BBC-television sports broadcaster, who corrects an error...