Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, safe as the air is, it can and should be safer. The industry has been aroused by the worst bunching of crashes in history: nine plane disasters, worldwide, since Jan. 1 have killed 597 passengers-almost as many as all last year. The fatality total is likely to grow because planes are becoming more capacious, skyways are getting more crowded, and the number of passengers-150 million this year-is expanding by 15% annually. Figuring that the number of passenger-miles will multiply 20-fold within 35 years, Bo Lundberg, head of Sweden's Aeronautical Foundation, forecasts that...
Everyone-airline officials, pilots, Government regulators, airport chiefs-will have to work toward reducing the possibility of error as the planes grow to take on larger loads. Douglas is already test-flying an expanded DC-8 that can carry 250 people; Boeing plans soon to start building a 500-passenger 747; and Lockheed intends to market a 700-seat commercial version of the C-5A in the early 1970s. Saving just one of those planes would easily save $10 million worth of airplane and a priceless amount of humanity-which would make almost any effort to improve an already excellent...
...draw the best performers from an international pool. Thirty years ago, more than half of U.S. symphonies were composed of foreign-born musicians; today the proportion runs about 10%. Thus, U.S. symphonies are free from the national mannerisms that mark European orchestras. And while European players tend to grow phlegmatic in the security of their state-subsidized jobs, the self-supporting arrangement in the U.S. engenders a competition that compels each musician to produce his best. Says Concert Violinist Henryk Szeryng: "I always find that my best accompaniments in the U.S. are in February and March, the time when contracts...
...Feminine Forever is the answer to the Hokinson woman's prayers -it tells "how to avoid menopause completely in your life, and stay a romantic, desirable, vibrant woman as long as you live. It shows how women who already have gone through the anguish of menopause can . . . grow visibly younger day by day." The author himself does not go quite that far, although he says his work is "one of the greatest biological revolutions in the history of civilization...
...House seminar. Converting the course into a seminar was not merely a negative reaction to impersonal teaching methods, to the round of lectures, exams, and office hours that characterizes the greater part of Harvard education. Chalmers also sees a positive good in the personal relationships that grow out of small-group teaching and thinks that such relationships should be a natural outgrowth of the Gen Ed program. This belief is implicit in his concept of a gen ed adviser. He believes that an undergraduate needs an adviser not only to plan a departmental curriculum but also to help in matters...