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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life Raft and Oil Slick. He climbed into one of his squadron's 60-ton, $2.3 million airplanes, revved up the engines and started taxiing around. As crew chief, he was authorized to do so. Keeping the plane in proper operating condition was his responsibility, and crew chiefs generally have a free hand with aircraft while on the ground. But suddenly he pointed the plane's nose down the runway and took off. Though the plane normally requires a flight crew of four, Meyer seemed to know what he was doing. He had some experience piloting light planes...
Detroit is running an $8.9 million recreation program, and the police, who came in for heavy criticism for their role in the 1967 rioting, are preparing their own sports program for youth...
...action came as an amendment to a bill to appropriate $3.8 million for a new program that would pay part of the interest on private loans made to colleges for construction. The amendments would deny such funds to colleges that fail to enforce section 504 of the Higher Education...
...fastest overall growth in the 500 was posted by the conglomerates. Largely through mergers, one of them, California's Commonwealth United, increased sales by an astonishing 2,178%, to $153 million. Membership in the exclusive billion-dollar sales club increased by 21, to a total...
Lane is prepared to lend $15 million in the poor neighborhoods and spend $1,000,000 a year in cleanup campaigns. He also intends to expand his program far beyond that by seeking such large depositors as the Ford Foundation and converting their money into high-risk loans. "Lowincome people need money," says Lane, "and the banks have got to give it to them...