Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although small, there was a degree of comfort in seeing the new apartment dweller's plight so truthfully reported on your pages...
From the moment President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1961, Florida Democrat Alan S. Boyd, 40, made it plain that he was anxious to do something about the plight of the nation's airlines. Plagued by skyrocketing costs and too many empty seats, the country's trunk lines dropped over $35 million last year. Boyd's proposed cure: more mergers to create stronger companies. Said he: "It takes a big company to sustain the burden of keeping pace, when aircraft cost $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 apiece...
...that they might as well not have joined SEATO. since the unaligned Indians are getting arms from the U.S. without having had to join any alliances. Pakistan also argues that if Washington and London expected it to accept Indian rearmament and not to take advantage of India's plight to invade Kashmir, then Nehru should have been required in turn to promise to settle the Kashmir issue. Although the U.S. got an Indian promise that the new arms would not be used against Pakistan, Ayub's government refused to be reassured. Ayub warned Washington that its continued support...
Casey himself would cry if he could see the plight of the modern I.C. Hit by competition from highways, waterways and airways, the road has watched earnings slip from $26.5 million in 1955 to $12.7 million last year. It has sought salvation through diversification, only to be blocked by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which still treats the railroads as if they were the monopolistic Goliaths of the past. To get around this, the I.C. last week applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to switch to the status of a holding company, which would control the railroad...
Overrun by Administrators. Goodman is best known for his writings on the plight of modern youth. Growing Up Absurd argues that today's problem children are the fault of a society that offers them squalid ideals and dull jobs. The behavior of juvenile delinquents and the beats, wayward as it is, is in fact a wholesome protest against adult mores. Writes Goodman. "Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system and to have skilled and spirited men to run that system with...