Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon," says one of Olds's aviators. "We'd follow him anywhere." To make sure they do, Olds keeps in top shape, plays squash daily on a court he built himself at Ubon. Well aware that his reaction time is bound to slow with age, Olds practices his flying skills incessantly, and 57 raids over the flak-and-fighter-fraught North have only sharpened them. "Younger guys have to think before they start a maneuver," he says. "With me, it's instinct...
...evidenced than in the riot at Dartmouth when George Wallace spoke there [May 12]. Apparently the ideal of freedom of speech these students pretend to cherish so dearly can be applied only to speakers who advocate views in agreement with their own. Dartmouth students would be well advised to follow the example set by students at the University of Mississippi when they cordially received Robert Kennedy last year...
...earlier crashes, he figured that everything had to be subordinated to saving weight; for instance, elaborate equipment for a forced landing, he decided, was not worth the cost in weight, which could be better used for extra fuel. Similarly, he decided to fly a Great Circle course rather than follow the ship lanes, where he might be picked up in case of failure. Everyone else had taken or planned to take a navigator along; Lindbergh figured a navigator was equivalent in weight to 50 gallons of gasoline, and he needed the gasoline more than the navigation...
...most young musicians merely display a coldly glittering technique. Cookie's performance of Bruch and Mozart was sensitive and finely shaded; in passages of Beethoven and Saint-Saens she showed grit and fire as well. Pinky, tapping his feet and swaying into a sort of golfer's follow-through, plunged with intuitive flair and gusto into music by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and his broad, compelling tone filled up the hall...
Harvard seems intent, as in the case of the already striking Printers and Photoengravers, on breaking the power of the unions. There is no reason why the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council should not immediately be recognized as the bargaining agent for the BGMA. But management seems content to follow a 19th century labor policy, even if it means shutting the University down...