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...committee, which is advisory to the Biology department's Faculty, will consider significant course and concentration requirement changes. "This is a unique opportunity for students to take positive action in determining their own curriculum," Abraham S. Flexer, assistant professor of Biology, said...
Sitting idly aboard an airliner one day in 1956, a Tennessee theater-chain owner named David Flexer was struck by how much the cabin resembled a screening room. Flexer's brainstorm: Why not show movies in flight? He formed a company called Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc., spent five years developing a compact, shock-resistant projector and screen with the help of Trans World Airlines...
California's Ampex Corp. has developed a similar system, called "Travelvision" for showing movies and television on planes, ships, buses and trains, and within two months will install the first system in a U.S. airline. Flexer's Inflight has 35 systems working aloft for TWA, another four for Pakistan International Airlines; it has also obtained a waiver of its exclusive TWA contract so that it can service noncompeting routes, is presently negotiating with one international and four domestic lines...
...distant French destinations, flights which more than equaled the mileage to Berlin-as British newspapers were careful to point out. Responsible for the flights to France was Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, head of the Bomber Command. Tall, spare, methodical, he is a practiced muscle flexer, for he has commanded the R. A. F. in Iraq and India, where it is the function of antique planes to scare the baggy pants off bearded tribesmen. Last week Sir Edward's up-to-date bombers did a little job of scaring right at home...