Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flight Test. Fortnight ago, Fleay gave his platypuses a flight test. He put them in grass-lined boxes and took them for a 60-mile ride to Brisbane on a Trans-Australia Airlines DC-3. At Brisbane they seemed cheerful, but when they got back home, they seemed slightly dazed and ignored tempting heaps of wriggling earthworms. Next day Pamela and Paul were back in form, but Paddy kept sticking his head underwater (a sign of distress). When he did not recover his spirits after two days. Fleay liberated him in a nearby river. "Paddy is so sensitive," explained Fleay...
...soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert because "there never was anything for you to fight for"; resists until one day, in flight before the American advance, he begs for food at a concentration camp, and sees at last that, in effect if not in intention, he is no better than the brute who runs the gas chamber. Both destroy human life for no reason except that they are told to; both...
...University Travel Co. recently reiterated a charge that Victor R. Besso '57, director of last summer's Harvard-Rad-cliffe charter flight to Europe, mishandled funds and violated Civil Aeronautics Board regulations in organizing the flight...
Edward Bloomberg, president of the company, originally filed the complaint with the C.A.B. last August, urging that the return flight from Europe be cancelled. At that time the complaint was rejected, but Bloomberg refiled it a few weeks ago. He charged that Besso collected $1200 more than the cost of the trip from last year's passengers and that he has never refunded this excess. According to C.A.B. regulations, such flights must be non-profit. Besso, however, claimed yesterday that he had sent out refunds last month, too recently to have been discovered in Bloomberg's investigations...
Both Bloomberg and Stephen R. Salomon '58, director of this summer's flight, pointed out last night that the charge concerned Besso only, and, even if acted upon, would have no direct effect on the 1958 plane trip, for which Salomon has made a separate application to the C.A.B...