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...close with a farewell to friends and a warehouse of memories to forever cherish. Months of parties, late night talks reminiscing about high school, hours of nothing to do are over and the time has come to move away from the community that served as a bittersweet stomping ground for innumerable adolescent antics...
...after all that, why get off the ground? Fifty years before Maverick and Goose, Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy dared the clouds in Test Pilot (1938), a paean to the thrills, thralls and tragedies of dancing with that blue-clad lady (more of the last, apparently, when in a military aircraft). Just ask weak-kneed Myrna Loy when her man goes plummeting. It was MGM's biggest hit, and you get Lionel Barrymore thrown in. And remember: they died at their trade...
Beginning this fall, members will run afterschool workshops on diversity at Charlestown High School, which was depicted in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning tome Common Ground by former Crimson executive J. Anthony Lukas '54 as the site of anti-busing unrest during the 1970s...
Aziz F. Rana '00, a co-chair of the community action program committee, said that because AYSC is a newly-created organization, students have "an opportunity to get involved with something on the ground level...
WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary William Cohen's decision to ground military training flights for a safety review, along with the five air accidents in as many days that prompted it, may give the impression that something has gone seriously wrong with the U.S. military's flying machines. Not so, says the Pentagon. Statistics released Wednesday show that their air safety record is actually improving: There have been 1.5 accidents per 100,000 hours of flying so far this year, down from 1.53 two years ago. TIME's Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson backs this up: ?This rash of accidents in a short...