Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analysis does not include "indirect costs" of operating a commercial space line-maintenance, administration, advertising, ticketing and profit-but its authors insist these charges should parallel standard airline operating expenses. All costs included, the estimated price of a round-trip ticket to the moon would be $900-about $40 less than the current first-class jet fare from New York to Paris and back...
...weak leaders. The editors of Christian Century felt bound to offer a rebuttal of their own contributor. "We sympathize with (Martin's respect for competence in politics," they wrote, "but cannot accept his implication that vital faith necessarily constitutes an insuperable obstacle to such competence." The editors insist that though Lincoln was not a churchgoer, he was a devout Christian who "humbly subjected all his judgments and decisions to the will of God." A President's religion, continues the editorial, is very much an issue, since it will guide his actions and form his convictions. But, says...
...Most books thought up by publishers or moviemakers and farmed out to authors. Irving Wallace's The Chapman Report, old publishing hands insist, was hatched by Victor Weybright of the New American Library and reads like the hack job it is. Rona Jaffe's soap-slick The Best of Everything was written to the specifications of Film Producer Jerry Wald. It is possible to write a non-novel without any lightning from Olympus; Henry Morton Robinson accomplished it this year with Water of Life, a book he thought up all by himself as a cynical imitation of Taylor...
Columbia University recently announced that about 100 students had been rejected for admission to its summer session. The New York Times quoted the director as saying, "This is entirely an attempt to insist on high quality instruction in the summer session by screening out the poor risks...
...Mboya, by the selection methods he uses, often sends "inferior" students to the U.S., where they often can get into only "inferior" colleges (e.g., small Southern Negro institutions). They are embittered after they get home, say the British, when they cannot meet the higher-education job specifications the British insist upon, based on British models. The British also argue that they themselves are training Africans to run new nations...