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...continual drives for funds, for obvious reasons. Many "paganized" forms of Christianity have evolved, but the Church does everything it can to suppress these, explaining "these minority groups frequently cause situations of conflict with the rest of the population." (See official introduction to Aldous Huxley's "Practicas Religiosas en Mesoamerica" (Religious Practices in Central America). Semenaria de Integration Social Guatemalteca, No. 11, 1965. Quote is from footnote #5 on page...
...trip, his plane brushed the wing of a Viscount while taxiing; after Halaby reported the incident, his FAA fined him $50.) He also framed new safety regulations calling for, among other things, improved radar and computerized air-traffic control and separate airways for jets and slower piston-en-gined aircraft. During Halaby's tenure, the airline fatality rate dropped by nearly two-thirds. Just before he resigned in 1965, Halaby flew an FAA JetStar from Los Angeles to Washington, checking in by radio with ground-control stations on the way to give the required position reports. One by one across...
Agnew's visit to Taiwan was billed as a mission of reassurance. The Chinese Nationalists have been dismayed by Washington's recent moves to improve relations with Peking by slightly easing trade restrictions and seeking to resume ambassador-level talks. En route to Taipei, Agnew defended the policy ot lessening tensions and said that it would continue. "Communist China is a country of over 800 million people. They can't be ignored." On arrival, however, he assured President Chiang Kai-shek that "there is no diminution in our posture here." Then he flew on to Bangkok...
Tony Rayner moved up from 177 to replace Scanlon, and it took a great effort to avert a pin. Using several excellent moves, the Engineers' Walt Price had Rayner in two predicaments en route...
...Sept. 1 -The Boston Herald Traveler publishes its last edition and folds. Former staff member Paul J. Corkery eulogizes it in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin: "Ou uont ses reporteurs en autumne...