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...Eighteen years ago next month, a National Airlines plane leased from Pan American took off from New York for Miami. It was a routine flight except that the plane had no propellers. Commercial jetliner service in the U.S. had begun, and with it the inescapable problem that faces people and airplanes alike: aging. About 90 jet planes currently used by major U.S. airlines are almost as old as the commercial jet age itself. The average age of the U.S. fleet is 7.9 years; hundreds of aircraft are nine to twelve years old. To replace aging aircraft, airlines will need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRCRAFT: Blue Sky for Planemakers | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Radcliffe played aggressively in the first half, dominating the game with eighteen shots on goal, but could not overpower the Brown goalkeeper...

Author: By Emily A. Souvaine, | Title: Brown Scores in First Half; J. V. Stickwomen Succumb 1-0 | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

MEET CONRAD JARRETT, ordinary American High School kid with A grades and a varsity letter. He's a shy, quiet isolated type of guy--the kind that's always worrying about being polite, maintaining control, not offending anyone. But there is something wrong with Conrad Jarrett. At eighteen he's a failed suicide with red-scarred wrists to prove it and eight months in a hospital to show for it. Conrad is scared of something inside himself, something that makes him feel like a piece of glass on the verge of shattering. What Conrad is afraid...

Author: By Ruth C. Streeter, | Title: Bogeys in the Closet | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

...With only eighteen veterinary schools in the country, admission to these schools is twice as competitive as admission to medical schools," Hank Wilson, head of the Tufts public relations office, said Monday in explaining the current shortage of openings...

Author: By Rachel L. Cavell and Alix M. Freedman, S | Title: Tufts Considering Whether to Build Veterinary School | 10/20/1976 | See Source »

...case, most of all this top-notch talent you're paying for is in Boston as part of the Boston University Celebrity Series, now in its fortieth year. Founded by the late Aaron Richmond, the Celebrity Series works approximately eighteen months in advance to schedule 35 concerts and recitals per season...

Author: By Jay E. Golan, | Title: All the talent you'll ever want to see | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

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