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...built, and will carry 300 passengers to its competitors' 130-odd. The U.S. aircraft, to cost $40 million each, will be able to fly from New York City to Paris in two hours and 20 minutes, v. seven hours for standard jets. Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd estimated a minimum sale of 300 aircraft under the SST program. Boeing President William M. Allen anticipates that the plane will be flying by 1971, about the same time that its slower, trans-Atlantic competitors go into service...
...Commerce Commission approved the historic merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central last year, only to see it tangled in legal challenges. Last week-a year later to the day-the ICC bestowed its blessing on a rail merger that it hopes will be consummated with minimum delay. Highballed to join on June 1 were the Chicago and North Western and the smaller Chicago Great Western, whose get-together could save the two lines $6,000,000 a year...
...other steps introduce hand movements which accommodate an increasing number of lines. An "S" - shape is considered the ultimate design for a hand movement because it is simple and holds to a minimum the time the hand hides the print...
...Harvard's junior faculty salaries are not quite competitive." The word quite distorts the truth: no other major American university offers men who actually hold the Ph.D. degree (regardless of rank) $7800. E.g. the minimum salary, for Ph.D.s (in all departments) at Berkeley, Wisconsin, Princeton, Stanford, and most other major universities, commences at $9000. See the AAUP Bulletin (June 1966), pp. 164-95. Further, a junior faculty member at Harvard who does not actually hold the Ph.D. (i.e. an acting instructor) earns...
...work of Gilbert and Sullivan is opera as everyone would have it -- uproarious dialogue peppered with concise musical numbers and plagued by a minimum of operatic filler. Sullivan's melodies are captivating in their exquisite sentimentality and catchy enough for everyone to sing along...