Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that its presence in the university has not caused problems. The assertion that good education requires research contains a basic truth which has in some cases been overplayed in much the same way that the need for "national defense" has been used to justify a number of dubious practices. The net effect of this research on Harvard is something I am not qualified to judge. I wish only to say that selective reductions and adjustments in the amount and balance of research which might be suggested by a sober review would not trigger an unqualified financial catastrophe. To suggest that...
Rent control was the number one order of business for the City of Cambridge during the past week...
...preference for departures at dinnertime. The flights that the airlines have shifted to off-hours are mostly those headed for smaller towns; thus, a traveler destined for Podunk or Puddle Junction may have to go at 10 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. The quotas also sharply reduce the number of private-plane landings during busy hours...
Construction of improved air towers, radar and instrument landing systems has been hampered by the tendency of Congress to keep appropriations low except when crashes focus public attention on air safety. This parsimony seems dangerous in view of the fact that in the U.S. last year the number of fatal accidents in general aviation increased 15%, and the number of airline fatalities per 100 million passenger-miles rose from...
Jackpot. The campaign has had its effect on service. Reservation clerks, sporting straw skimmers with hatbands proclaiming "Happiness," give the weather report as they announce the gate number. While demonstrating oxygen masks, stewardesses tell passengers about the epicurean banquet that lies ahead. One Pittsburgh cargo handler helped his group win by carrying a big box out to a shipping customer's car, stowing it in the trunk, then walking around to open the car door-and bowing...