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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Understandably dismayed by such a proposal ("Government-sponsored moral collapse"), the weekly California Southern Baptist countered, tongue in cheek, with an even farther-out suggestion. "Perhaps," the magazine editorialized, "we ought to send into battle zones only married men whose wives can accompany them to a relatively safe zone near the battle area, and the men could spend a week on the front line and a week at home...
Died. Iskander Mirza, 70, Pakistan's first President, whose troubled two years in office were marked by corruption, famine and near bankruptcy and ended with a military coup by General Mohammed Ayub Khan in 1958; of a heart attack; in London...
Died. Donald J. McParland, 40, president of British Newfoundland Corp. Ltd., the Canadian firm charged with developing the immense $1 billion Churchill Falls hydroelectric complex in Newfoundland; in the crash of a company jet that claimed the lives of five other project executives; near Labrador City, Newfoundland. McParland's death was the second tragedy to strike the project, biggest of its kind in North America; his predecessor, Donald Gordon, died of a heart attack last...
Died. Harry Scherman, 82, a founder of the Book-of-the-Month Club, whose skillful use of advertising and the U.S. mails revolutionized book distribution; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Convinced that the growing demand for books could best be met through mail-order sales (few people were near bookshops, he reasoned, but everyone was near a post office), Scherman in 1926 founded the club with Maxwell Sackheim and Robert Haas; initial subscription was 4,750 and jumped tenfold within a year. Scherman guided the company's expansion into phonograph records and art reproductions; at his death...
...among the hardest for Negroes to land. Only an estimated 51 of the roughly 35,000 pilots of the major U.S. airlines are black. Now would-be Negro pilots will gain a new ally. Trial Attorney F. Lee Bailey announced that he will open a flying school for blacks near Boston on Jan. 1, with an initial class of 25. He intends "to force a showdown with the airlines, which are not hiring black pilots on grounds that they cannot find a 'qualified man.' My guys will be qualified...