Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATEMAN Major, Canadian Forces HQ NORAD (NEEC) Ent AFB, Colo...
...TIME, "On Flying More and Enjoying It Less" [April 18], spotlights increasing, overpowering chaos in air travel. Major problems are created by the need for superairports to serve superjets. Necessarily they must be located at great distances from the megalopolis each serves. And these airports will simply shift confusion from one place to another. Perhaps the answer is containerized people. A gargantuan crane straddles the plane, smoothly lifts the passenger compartment from the plane and deposits it on a monorail flatcar pulled by a power unit. The passengers unbuckle their seat belts and are whisked 150 m.p.h. to the downtown...
...evening of April 27, our correspondents were well-prepared to cover the cataclysm. Sensing in advance that France would say non to the general, Paris Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, a veteran European reporter, had assigned six correspondents-all French-speaking-to cover France's leading politicians, four major provincial cities and news sources in the capital...
...students of Amherst College, which has so far escaped serious disturbances, tossed the ball back to Richard Nixon. In a letter signed by Amherst President Calvin Plimpton, they predicted that turmoil would continue "until you and the other leaders of our country address more effectively, massively and persistently the major social and foreign problems of our society." Certainly the Amherst statement reflected the views of many moderates. Yet the equation is not that simple. The major social and foreign problems of society will not be solved quickly or easily. No matter what the pace of progress, there will always...
...even before De Gaulle fell last week, the Franco-American freeze was thawing. The U.S. bombing halt in North Viet Nam, coupled with the opening of peace talks in Paris, eased one major cause of tension. De Gaulle's own position lost some of its majesty, both within and outside France, after the student riots a year ago and the autumn monetary crisis that almost forced devaluation of the franc. De Gaulle had courted the Soviet Union during a triumphal tour in 1966 and had implicitly excluded the U.S. from his often-stated vision of a Europe "united from...