Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stephen A. Sohn '66 claimed last night that an agreement he reached with a British airline would allow the HSA to fly one plane-load of students to Europe for $29 less than its current minimum rate during the peak season...
Under his agreement with Garber's Travel Agency, Sohn had been prepared to charter a prop-jet plane from Boston to London, leaving after commencement and returning during the first week of September. He would have charged $240, compared to the HSA's current peak-season minimum of $269 for a flight to Brussels...
Stink at Interchanges. Saturdays are not so bad; the cruising sniffer can drive all the way downtown without seeing the needle push above 40 p.p.m. During weekday rush hours, though, it sometimes hits a peak of 120 p.p.m. "It is most exciting," says Haagen-Smit. "You get behind another car, and the pointer goes way up, especially where you have a slowdown of traffic." Top readings come at the nightmarish interchanges, where curling roadways tangle like spaghetti on a fork and hundreds of car engines pant in frustration. "Tunnels and depressions concentrate the carbon monoxide," says the professor...
...Britain's cruelest winters, the Board of Trade last week issued some sorry news: the foreign trade gap worsened in January. The report was doubly disappointing because Britain had expected to improve upon the strong performance that it recorded in December, when exports hit an all-time monthly peak and the trade gap narrowed to $224 million. But January's exports plunged and imports were scarcely reduced by the Labor government's 15% surcharge on most foreign purchases. The gap grew to $272 million...
...than 75,000 foreign students in attendance at U. S. institutions last year, 75 per cent of them from emerging countries, and that the foreign student population is expected to double in the next decade just when the enrollment of U. S. students is due to reach a new peak, the report points out that foreign students are a heavy drain on U. S. educational facilities...