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Quite simply, the Administration wants more tangible support from the most voluble champions of the SST. This week chiefs of the plane's U.S. customers-eleven airlines and one leasing company-will meet with Federal Aviation Agency brass to hear a plan for their direct participation in the prototype financing. The FAA wants them to chip in $1,000,000 for each of the 58 planes they have on order, over and above the $100,000-a-plane deposits they have already made. Later, foreign airlines, which have signed up for 56 SSTs, may be asked to join...
...have a range of 15-30 miles, can be rented for about $15 a month. Largest of the companies that operate 151 transmitting stations in the U.S. is A.T. & T. Mother Bell, which provides Bellboy paging services for more than 10,000 customers in 25 cities, has inaugurated experimental direct-dial paging in Washington, D.C., and Seattle, awaits FCC approval of an application for more frequencies...
...case, he emphasized, would SDS do anything calculated to turn the meeting into another "McNamara situation." If SDS thought that the meeting in practice failed to meet its principles, then it would try to re-direct the meeting its way, and, as a last resort, publicly announce the meeting a "failure" and walk out en masse...
...idea has been adopted by Edward M. Kovachi Jr. '68, as a plank in his campaign for Leverett House Committee chairman. Kovachi said last night, and Hoffman agreed, that it would be quite feasible for the House Committee to direct the guide's compilation with help from other House members. "I know many people in the House who are really gung-ho for this idea," Kovachi added...
...apes began to take separate paths. As recently as World War II, it was believed that manlike creatures began to evolve five or six million years ago. In the years after the war, the discovery and dating of skeletal remains pushed the existence of man's direct ancestors back to 10 million and then to 14 million years. Now famed Kenya-born Anthropologist Louis Leakey has evidence that a manlike creature he has named Kenyapithecus africanus roamed over eastern Africa concurrently with apes 20 million years...