Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bigger, faster and more efficient than today's planes, the upcoming generation of jumbo jets and supersonic transports will enable airlines to fly the skies more economically than ever. Economies will be hard to come by, however, when such planes are on the ground. Rather than go it alone in footing the bills for servicing and overhauling, Eastern Air Lines and Trans World Airlines embarked last week on a joint project designed to reduce the cost of maintaining their future superjet fleets...
...decision on a new chief for the Organization of American States will probably be made in an atmosphere of sweet compromise next January. But the bitter battles over Ritter have been a testing ground for the small member-states of the Western Hemisphere. They may have welded themselves into a bloc which could achieve veto power over OAS policy, especially if more Carribean states join. Jamaica reportedly is moving to join the OAS. It will add one more to this new force in hemisphere politics...
...other charge--selling or distributing obscene literature--the arguments are more straightforward. In their efforts to have Avatar's twelfth and thirteenth issues declared obscene, City authorities stand on better ground--at least their attack conforms to legal procedure...
...common company," says Ewing Marion Kauffman, 51, founder, president and principal stockholder of Kansas City-based Marion Laboratories, Inc. "It is our right to be uncommon if we can." Uncommon is hardly the word for Kauffman's pharmaceutical firm, which was founded on poker winnings, grew by selling ground oyster shells, and has made wealthy people out of typists and maintenance men who bought stock for around 66? a share when the company was young. They have since seen their shares increase...
...Ground has been broken for Mather House--Harvard's tenth House--after the University brought construction costs closer in line with original estimates...