Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aeronautics Board, which issues a critical monthly report on flights that miss schedules. But there are times when the pilot's choice is not so easy, when a reasonable man might stay or go, and pressures may make the ultimate difference in his decision. Whenever possible, most pilots prefer to make landings according to visual (fair weather) flight rules, instead of instrument approaches that take more time and cost more in fuel. Circling in a fog over Tokyo in March, a Canadian Pacific pilot decided to divert his flight to Taipei; he changed his mind when he heard...
When the new papers appear around April 11, the number of New York dailies will have been reduced to five from a onetime high of 25. Despite the steady attrition, New Yorkers will probably prefer one improved paper to two mediocre ones. But for all their secretive, slow-maturing plans, the new papers must get some unpleasant unfinished business out of the way before they can begin to publish. They are almost certain of U.S. Justice Department approval of their merger, but coming to terms with the unions is another matter. The papers are talking about dropping at least...
Project Discovery teachers generally like the variety of films available, although they would prefer more short films, each on a narrowly specific topic, and more biographical films. Teachers at Scott Montgomery would like to see more films that do not portray "white middle-class suburban America." It would now cost other schools about $16 per pupil per year to duplicate the project's facilities, but this cost will decline as demand increases. Despite the advantages, no one expects films to become more than just another of a teacher's many tools. The teacher, says E.B.F.'s Howell...
Harvard would prefer to have the library all to itself, Robert G. Gardner '48, director of the film study center in the Peabody Museum said yesterday. But he pointed out that all four schools desperately need the facilities which the library will make available, and that the foundations will be more anxious to provide funds for a project which is not limited to Harvard...
With Negroes now enjoying virtually equal registration strength in ten black-belt counties, black candidates hope to win up to 30 primary contests. In a number of races, though, civil rights leaders prefer to manipulate the balance of power. One likely white beneficiary is Wilson Baker, Selma's public-safety director, who is challenging Dallas County's bullyboy sheriff, Jim Clark. Baker's restraint during last year's impassioned civil rights demonstrations may have also won him hefty non-Negro support. The reason: many Dallas County whites blame Clark's cattle-prodding tactics for dramatizing...