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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeded out fast in the first semester. Over the past eight years, Kansas has harvested six Rhodes scholarships, almost as many as Princeton or Yale, and 106 Woodrow Wilson scholarships for postgraduate study in the past six years. An honors program exempts the top 150 students from class-load limits, lets some students carry as many as 28 hours per semester and whiz through college in little over two years...
...look campaign. Braniff was the first U.S. airline to put into operation the relatively small short-run jet aircraft -in Braniff's case the BAC One-Eleven -providing places like Sioux Falls, S. Dak., with commercial jet service for the first time. Needing only a 48% passenger load for Braniff to break even, the 63-seat BAG One-Eleven has averaged 61.1%. In addition, Lawrence put Braniff's four-engine Boeing jets on a new schedule of daytime flying and nighttime maintenance. As a result, they now fly 11½ hours daily instead of eight, and Braniff...
Leadoff man John Dockery was hit by a pitch, and George Neville and Jeff Grate drew walks to load the bases with...
...Senate passed. 79 to 0, an Administration measure authorizing the Secretary of Commerce to set minimum standards for tires, effective in August 1967. The bill would give the Secretary authority to force Detroit to equip its new cars with stronger load-bearing tires and to bar from the road so-called "cheapies," the substandard tires with fancy names that have an unfortunate history of blowouts...
Modern jets are so powerful that most of them can fly with just about all the passengers and baggage that can be crowded into them. The current trend is to take advantage of this load-carrying ability with "high density" seating. To cut back on that might cause a rise in fares; it might also mean a rise in safety. Though all the passengers survived the crack-up of a United 727 at Salt Lake City, 42 died in the fire because they could not break through the crowded aisles to the few escape hatches. Criticizing what he calls "sardine...