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Kenneth R. Andrews, master of Leverett House, said yesterday that Elisabeth W. Mahnke '63. Lowell House non-resident tutor is the "leading candidate" to fill the Leverett House senior tutor post, the remaining senior tutor position to be filled for next year...
...limited and incomplete. The biggest problem is that the luminaries of the department are such experts in their small fields, so involved in their research, that none of them is willing to teach historical survey courses or introductions, or even generalize about their field. This gap has traditionally been filled by making the non-credit tutorials treat an historical author--more a formal solution than a real one, as the non-credit courses rarely cover more than one book, and that in a rather shallow manner. Next year the tutorials will be for half-credit--a welcome change, but still...
...concludes its ambitious and successful season this Friday with a concert featuring Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Schoenberg's marvelous Five Pieces for Orchestra and El Deseo Sagrado, the piece which won the HRO's composition competition, will fill out the program...
...nearly two decades, the nation's airlines have tried to fill empty seats on their cavernous jets primarily by catering to the air traveler's palate rather than his pocketbook. They have wined and dined him with increasingly elaborate soup-to-nuts meal services and, while offering a variety of excursion rates, raised regular fares more than 40 times since the jets began flying in the U.S. in 1958. After the last across-the-board fare boost of 4% in November, however, customers suddenly began to rebel. Airline traffic has slumped 15% below a year ago, even though...
...airlines" most immediate worry is neither nationalization nor deregulation nor Government-forced mergers, but the prospect that their new cut-rate promotional fares will add only to gross revenues this summer while doing nothing for profits. Many industry analysts forecast that the lines will raise their percentage of filled seats above February's 48.5%, but that since the airlines will also get less revenue for each occupied seat, they will continue flying in the red. In taking that chance, the airlines are clearly changing their operating philosophy, and the CAB may be doing so too. For years, the agency...