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...himself a starting position on coach Henry Lamar's Freshman football squad. The program statistics read: end--19--6:1--Choate. "The most adept pass catcher was John Kennedy, but his lack of weight was a drawback," wrote the coach in his post-season review...
...building an ultramodern, $5,000,000 radar air-traffic control center, whose Remington Rand electronic brain will track all aircraft in a three-state zone. Hardest-to-lick problem thus far is jet noise, but airport officials hope that the new turbofan jet engines will eventually alleviate even that drawback of the jets. Dulles Airport is planting 80,000 trees around its rim to help absorb jet noise...
...cabin cruiser. They enjoy a leisurely breakfast at sea on the way in and drink cocktails on the long voyage home. "It's so much fun that we may go right on commuting by sea after the strike is over," says he. The big drawback is the travel time: 2 hr. 35 min. v. an hour on the train...
Bilko & Como. BBC, after all, was ahead of the U.S. in beginning public television back in 1936. But BBC's drawback in program making has always been, in the words of one English critic, its automatic recoil from "any program that will seriously annoy the Church of England, the Royal Family, the three services, the British Medical Association or the Law Society." It enjoyed a monopoly in British radio broadcasting for 33 years, during which its Oxford-accented air of uplift earned the BBC the fond, but not too fond, nickname "Auntie." Five years ago, along came commercial...
Moreover, steelmen say that the industry can produce more steel than the U.S. can use (expected 1960 production: 120 million tons) at 85% of capacity. That also happens to be the most efficient operating rate for the industry, since it permits better planning and less overtime pay. One serious drawback is that 85% of capacity means fewer jobs for steelworkers. So far, the drop in production has meant the layoff of nearly 13,000 steelworkers out of some 90,000 in the Pittsburgh area alone...