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...this is the handiwork of Frontier's ambitious $80,000-a-year president, Lewis W. Dymond, 47. The crew-cut Dymond, whom strangers have often mistaken for ex-Astronaut John Glenn, took charge at Frontier in 1962 after a 24-year career at National Airlines, during which time he rose from a $50-a-month plane washer and apprentice mechanic to vice president for operations, engineering and maintenance. At Frontier, he has got rid of most of its piston-engine planes in favor of 21 propjet Convair 580s and five Boeing tri-jet 727s. "We are lean and hungry...
...Mistaken for Grasses. Supported by an $80,000 grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, which was concerned about the possibility that the disease might spread to the U.S., Harpaz finally identified the virus carrier as a tiny plant hopper named Delphacodes striatellus. The insect, he discovered, was not particularly fond of corn, preferring the sap of barley, wheat and oat plants during winter and wild grasses in the summer. But while moving from its winter-to summer-plant hosts, the plant hopper frequently plunged its stylet into young corn seedlings in the mistaken belief that they were wild grasses...
...started it with a wild argument at a voter registration meeting in Prattville, a reputed Ku Klux Klan stronghold ten miles from Montgomery. Stokely's target was Prattville Assistant Police Chief Kenneth Hill, who shot and killed a Negro early this year during a jailbreak attempt after a mistaken arrest for murder. When Hill showed up at the meeting, Carmichael yelled: "Take that tin badge off and I'll take care of you myself!" After getting reinforcements, the cops arrested Carmichael on the spot...
Released just in time to capitalize on the headlines resulting from Sir Francis' 28,500-mile odyssey in Gipsy Moth IV, this little book may be mistaken at first glance for an account of the 65-year-old mariner's adventures. Actually, it is a sketchy, jerry-built anthology of sea tales by others who sailed at least some portion of the great clipper way followed by Skipper Chichester on his 226-day voyage. Since the book contains extracts from the best known yarns of such seafaring types as Sir Francis Drake, Joseph Conrad and Richard Henry Dana...
...Administration seemed fully aware of the relevant parallel between Korea and Vietnam; it avoided movements of troops toward the 17th parallel and other acts which might threaten the destruction of the Hanoi government. Now, however, faced with Hanoi's stubborn resistance, and in light of the Administration's mistaken belief that victory in the "test case" of Vietnam can end this type of "aggression" in this century, U.S. policy has begun to develop a logic and momentum of its own. As each escalation fails both to break Hanoi's will and to provoke China's entry, the Administration first hopes...