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...developed multiple lives, often cramming several into one day. He has always had a preternatural disregard for sleep. From the movies, he turned to aviation, where, despite having had no formal training, he proved to be something of a genius at aviation design and engineering. In 1935 he introduced the H1, the first plane with flush rivets to reduce drag, and was honored as the nation's outstanding airman by President Roosevelt. He set transcontinental speed records, then in 1937 flew a refitted Lockheed transport round the world in three days 19 hours, halving Wiley Post's old record...
...that thorough disregard of the feelings of the University community, their own regulations, and the interests of the University itself that makes the Trustees' action so inexcusable. This is by no means merely a case of "another" radical professor's dismissal...
James Robin professor of economics at Yale helped develop the program. "In the future," he said yesterday, more imaging must come from the students." The program is designed to aid students paying for their own education he said by "not saddling them with debts that disregard their ability...
...ever really become an effective tool for keeping rents down. And, he added, "It is imperative that we get a new city manager--a good administrator who can deal with that sort of thing; who will obey the demands of the majority of the council, not disregard them like the present city manager...
...submitting a list of candidates to the A.B.A. one week before he is scheduled to announce which two of the six he will nominate, the President has evidenced disregard for the organization's opinion. A week is hardly enough time for the seven-man committee on federal judiciary to investigate the legal, financial and ethical background of five virtually unknown individuals or even a U.S. Senator. For that matter, White House aides said last week that Nixon may go beyond the six-man slate for his choices and could be considering as many...