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Experienced pilots are only too aware of the many hazards that can be encountered in the sky. The catalogue of dangers includes flocks of migratory birds, sudden storms, atmospheric turbulence from jets, new high-rise buildings and towers along landing glide paths, instrument-confusing microwave emissions, occasional rocket launches, and the threat of collision with other planes. Now pilots have something utterly unexpected to contend with. In its latest "Notams" (Notices to Airmen), the Federal Aviation Administration has warned aircraft to keep clear of four laser experiment sites: McDonald Observatory, near Fort Davis, Texas: a Harvard observatory northwest of Boston...
...There is the factor of traditional party loyalty and, of course, the Democratic Party is still a useful instrument in winning an election...
...activities of David C. Bevan, Penn Central's deposed chief financial officer, and Charles J. Hodge, a former partner in the Manhattan investment banking house of Glore. Forgan (now merged to become F.I. duPont, Glore, Forgan & Co.), who was the railroad's chief investment adviser. Their instrument was Penphil, a private investment company formed by Bevan. Hodge and 14 cronies in 1962, which they hoped to build into a large conglomerate holding company. The Patman report charged that Penphil prospered by buying the stock of companies in which the railroad also invested. As the Penn Central poured millions...
...fifth member will be. The selection of a fifth member that can be mutually agreed on by the two representatives of the black community and the two city representatives will probably take another two months. By then the committee will be functioning well as the kind of delaying instrument Corcoran meant...
...CFIA. There, Robert Bowie, director of the Center, pressed charges.) The CRR does not decide ultimate guilt or innocence, nor does it examine the issues. It punishes radical students. It is not empowered, as Wilson was fond of saying, to hear complaints against the administration. The CRR is an instrument of the Harvard administration designed to punish students. It is only programmed one way. There will never be a CRIMSON headline reading "CRR OVERRULES DEAN MAY-SAVES EVERYONE...