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...travelers, and also comes as a convertible cargo-passenger plane. Unlike its chief rival, the Douglas DC-9, which has its engines mounted at the rear of the fuselage for a quieter ride, the 737 has its jets slung beneath the wings. The result, claim Boeing engineers, is a lighter plane with a roomier aft portion of the cabin. Both planes can make money with only a quarter of their seats filled, come equipped with their own boarding stairs, ground airconditioning, and jet-starting units to keep intermediate stops brief. The planes thus satisfy the airlines' most immediate need...
...Power," however, Rustin felt that the institutions of the Negro community should be involved in any organizing effort, that the middle classes should be concentrated upon, and that it should be fun. "You've got to have some fun, because we are a fun-loving people." Of course the lighter aspects should in no way supercede the more down-to-earth requirements of organization...
Bright Core. There are other unusual features of 0237-23. The spectra of most quasars show the presence of only lighter elements, such as hydrogen, helium and silicon. The spectrum of 0237-23 shows that the expanding gas shells contain titanium and probably chromium, nickel, cobalt and iron-heavy elements never before detected in quasars...
...dogs before dinner. He weighed 399 lbs. and was rejected by every girl he met, as well as by the U.S. Army. Walking up one flight of stairs, he recalls, was a major effort, exiting from a cab became a three-minute ordeal. Now life is considerably lighter and brighter for Bostwick: in ten months he has shed 170 lbs. How? By belonging to Weight Watchers Inc., an organization that is making such dramatic reductions commonplace...
...pounds receive "graduation" brooches or tie clips after 16 weeks in the program, thereafter earn a little diamond chip for every additional ten pounds lost. Since friendships develop at the meetings, members often see each other between sessions, urge each other on with the catch phrase "See you lighter...