Word: excessives
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...states and the West as well can enjoy the luxury of skepticism about the federation. The obstacles in the way of the union are numerous. Both Numeiry and Gaddafi realize that an Egyptian President, whoever he is, would always dominate the alliance. Sudan fears that Cairo will dump its excess population on the spacious land...
...surely only a Harvard production could lack what most acting companies have in excess ethnic flavor. The Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid production of Funny Girl plays the story of a young Jewish New York comedienne with a cast of well groomed aristocrats. This leads to some of the worst and the best moments of the evening. The worst: Phil Gabrielli is competent but ridiculous as suave Jewish gambler Nick Arristein. He plays him like Cyril Ritchard dipping his pinky finger into something icky. John Cook as theatrical entrepreneur Flo Ziegfeld tries hard but is equally unlikely. The best: a Ziegfeld...
Soon after a jetliner takes off, the pilot jettisons about three gallons of kerosene. This is excess fuel left in "holding tanks" from the engines' last run. Airline officials insist that the kerosene vaporizes in the atmosphere and does not return to earth. But Eastern Airlines Captain William L. Guthrie, 58, disagrees-and has lost his job as a result...
Last week Guthrie's 3,700 fellow Eastern pilots intimated that they, too, will drain holding tanks on the ground unless Guthrie gets his wings back. Meanwhile, Eastern announced that it had asked manufacturers to try to design a quieter, almost pollution-free engine in which excess fuel would seep back into the regular fuel tanks...
Last week Secor Browne, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, sugested that the airlines take the lead in reducing excess competition. In a major policy speech delivered at a meeting of local airline officers in Anchorage, Alaska, he asked: "Is it profitable for you to serve all existing points on your routes where you have competition? Or are you serving those points merely because another carrier is there and you would rather have a share of the market and lose money instead of seeing him have it alone? In plain English, are there points in your route where two carriers...