Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iowa's Parsons College last week voted to fire the man responsible for its growth from near bankruptcy to a booming, 4,900-student campus: President Millard Roberts. The action was intended to placate the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which voted to lift Parsons' accreditation by June 30 for financial mismanagement and relaxed academic standards (TIME, April...
Part of that prosperity is due to the Viet Nam war. Ferrying troops and equipment for the Pentagon accounts for 62% of the supplementals' revenues. A big lift, however, comes from the growing travel market. Last year the CAB-to the consternation of the trunk airlines-empowered the supplementals to charter their planes to travel agents for all-expense "inclusive tours" both inside and outside...
...surly bunch of Harvard and Yale trackmen traveled to England to see if their Anglo-Saxon bretheren at Oxford and Cambridge could exert themselves beyond a dainty lift of a teacup. The Englishmen in fact, could. And since that time, they have won 11 of the 21 trans-A antic meets...
Back-seat Psychiatry. New Yorkers, however, are born survivors. The immediate challenge was to operate the elevators-if possible. Steve Frenkel, a 19-year-old Hunter College engineering student living in a West Side building, pried open a stricken lift with a bent coat hanger, taught himself how to operate the machine, then enlisted other tenants on a rotation watch schedule. In many another highrise, kids gleefully took over the elevator controls. One East Side boy, pressed into service to spare his parents' dinner guests the rigors of the stairway, demanded-and got - $1 for his stint behind...
...transport designed by Aeronautical Engineer Sergei Yakovlev, 27, son of famed Soviet Aircraft Designer Alexsandr Sergeevich Yakovlev, for whom earlier YAK planes were named. What he had in mind, said Yakovlev, was a replacement for the famous old DC-3. Yakovlev's workhorse jet has thick, high-lift wings, big flaps, a relatively slow cruising speed of 450 m.p.h. and fat, soft tires-enabling it to land on small unimproved dirt fields that cannot be used by other jets. At cruising altitude, one of the three jet engines can be throttled back to idling position and virtually closed down...