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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bigger & Faster. The Concorde's backers hope that once the plane is in service, it will rack up a big percentage of the market before being challenged by the U.S. supersonic transport due aloft in the mid-'70s. Roomier than the Concorde (292 passengers v. 132) and faster (1,800 v. 1,450 m.p.h.), the Boeing 2707 has already attracted 125 options from 26 interested airlines. While the British and French admit that the American SST will eventually dominate the North Atlantic-currently accounting for 42% of all international air travel-they argue that there will be plenty...
...schedule for mid-year examinations appears on page eight of today's Crimson. The schedules distributed this week by the Adams House Drama Society are incorrect...
...withdrew its recommendation from the Faculty docket and the HPC's prestige plummeted. Old members argued that the new HPC had thrown away, for the sake of principle, the best change students could practically hope for. The new members didn't get their own pass-fail recommendation ready until mid-April, too late to try to bring them to a vote at the Faculty's May meeting...
Christmas with the Troops. Militantly antiCommunist, he thundered against concessions to the Communist countries, urging a role for the U.S. in Viet Nam as far back as the mid-'50s. Indeed, his call last year for nothing less than an Allied victory in Viet Nam brought him under attack by opponents of the war. As Roman Catholic vicar of U.S. armed forces, he visited the battlefields in World War II, making it a habit-up through his trip to Viet Nam last year -to spend Christmas with American troops overseas...
Open Checkbooks. In the wake of Bonnie and Clyde, there is an almost euphoric sense in Hollywood that more such movies can and will be made. The reason is that since mid-1966, the studios have opened doors and checkbooks to innovation-minded producers and directors with a largess unseen since Biograph moved from Manhattan to Los Angeles...