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Hence the good old summertime finds seersuckered College boys making daytime rushes for the Nantasket Beach excursion veasel, and night-time cultural promenades around the Esplanade. Some fans of nocturnal sedentary sport hasten to Braves Field and Fenway Park. Others like to take if lying down along Memorial Drive...
Melting Exports. Nevertheless, for the world's economy, July 15 will mean a jolt. Enough pounds can be converted into dollars after that date to hasten the currency crisis now dead ahead. If measures are not taken by the U.S. to put dollars back into foreign circulation, U.S. exporters, and the nation, will find themselves in deep trouble. Already, Britain has cut her U.S. imports by $800 million a year. In the last two months, many Latin American countries have sharply curtailed luxury and "nonessential" imports...
Helicopter manufacturers were not too much disheartened by the accidents. President Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft pointed out that airplanes are 43 years old; helicopters are only nine. They are already useful for "specialized assignments such as crop dusting, mapping, rescue. . . ." Better design and accumulating experience, Bell believes, "will hasten the time of wide public...
Blow Cold. Patterson thinks the airplane is still in the taxicab stage, and that the day of cheap mass transportation is years away. Nor does he think that some magical new discovery will hasten things much. He believes in inch-by-inch progress all down the line-starting, for example, by cleaning up the washrooms in airports. The recent squabble over whether airlines shall use G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) or I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) seems silly to him. Says he: "We need them both, one to check on the other. And we shouldn't use them until we learn...
...Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten the day of its reconstruction...