Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teaching fellows are as unwelcome at faculty meetings as at the conferences of undergraduate organizations. Much of the direct contact with undergraduates is their responsibility, yet they feel they have little to say about how undergraduate courses are taught. They have reservations about graduate programs but no means to express them. In general, their influence in the University seems to them incommensurate with their numbers (Harvard has more than 900 TF's) and their importance. They hunger to be consulted on the issues that affect them, and they want some kind of recognition of their function as teachers...
...Relief is coming for the Boston commuter," promised American Airlines' full-page ads. American, hoping for some relief itself, was touting its fancy new Boston-New York Jet Express service, which begins this week. Once king of the route, the airline is challenging the upstart that has virtually swept the rich Northeast Corridor since 1961: Eastern Air Lines' pinchpenny but popular Air-Shuttle...
Riding six abreast on the jets replacing Eastern's piston planes, Air-Shuttle passengers get to buy a ticket and read their own newspaper. American's Jet Express, by contrast, offers two-class service, continental breakfast, $1 drinks after 11:30 a.m. and coffee any time - while matching the Shuttle with a $16 tourist fare and 16 daily flights...
Though they must make phone reservations, American commuters can side step most of the terminal rigmarole by using a supply of blank "Express Tickets," to be turned in on boarding and paid for later by mail...
Eastern's New York-Washington shuttle may be in for a fight before long. "We see these guys standing at our gates with clipboards, making notes," says one Eastern man in Washington. "We know who they are." Eastern takes the position that the Jet Express isn't any way to run an air shuttle. Striking back, its own ads are featuring a stewardess who asks: "Coffee, tea or planes...