Word: fared
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Worth the Fare? After an overnight stop and a political breakfast rally in Anchorage, Alaska, the President returned to Washington 17 days and seven nations after he had left. A smallish claque of Government workers was on hand and a huge WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT banner rippled in the wind-lashed rain at Dulles International Airport. The President noted wryly: "We had perfect weather until we landed in the U.S. But that shows what happens in an election year...
Finally, Sekou Toure reluctantly released Ambassador Mcllvaine and offered to pay the air fare from Conakry to Accra of any Ghanaian who wanted to be repatriated. Toure knew well enough that few would take the offer: most of the Ghanaians in Conakry are members of Nkrumah's personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia...
Another cause of undergraduate opposition was a preposterous faculty report stating that the Loeb should produce only "recognized classics of the stage." Vague, and only briefly adhered to, this prospectus for play selection was mainly directed against musicals and Broadway fare. But it was interpreted by some to exclude lesser known serious plays as well. Quite reasonably, students active in Harvard theatre began to fear the Loeb would become a showcase for faculty-dominated professionalism...
...cities and suburbs, they need to get together to form metropolitan transportation systems that will serve both more efficiently. And the public may as well face it: it will probably have to pay more. Many experts feel that low standards of transportation have been the result of artificial low-fare policies, frequently prompted by political considerations. Instead of driving more people to the auto-and the traffic jams-slightly higher fares should make possible a comfort and convenience that commuters will feel are worth the price. So that fares do not rise out of hand, however, transit systems will need...
Wright said that a second difficulty this year is the Youth Fare Program, which offers flights at half-price on a stand-by basis. Although the program does not operate from December 15 to December 24. Wright speculated that some students will probably leave school early to take advantage...