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Just as serious is the effect--academically--of the 'disintegration' of the Yale community on weekends. "A weekend away from New Haven, with a girl's college or one of its denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands...
Dale Bauer, regular Adams goalie, worked the Maryland Ride to set up one of the scores. The play, one of Adams' specialties throughout the season, allows the forwards to get in position downfield before the goalie kicks...
...carries 8,000,000 passengers per year, one in every six Americans who fly in the U.S., and almost twice as many revenue passengers as all overseas U.S. airlines combined. Already its Boeing 707 jetliners are whooshing back and forth across the U.S. on shakedown flights as regular as scheduled trips, cutting cross-continent flight time by more than three hours: 5½ hours from New York to Los Angeles, 4½ hours to return. On most of its major routes, American will start jet service months ahead of its competitors...
...crews for the jet age, make both jets and pistons leave and arrive on schedule. He has worked on more than 2.1 million simulated jet flights, with the help of electronic machines that calculate the jet's fuel load, payload, schedule etc. as if it were on a regular run. ¶ Ellie Roman, honey-blonde staff supervisor in charge of American's 1,300 stewardesses, fulfilled a childhood ambition to become a stewardess, moved to New York from Chicago last year to take charge of training American's stewardesses for the jet age. Her tasks: teaching...
...biggest grocery, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., last week announced plans to give shareholders outside the Hartford family a vote in how the family-controlled corporation will be run. Some 19% of A. & P. stock is now held by the public, but the shares carry no regular voting power. The move is the first step in what Wall Street believes is a plan for the heirs of A. & P. Founder George H. Hartford* to sell part of their 81% stock interest in the food chain (last fiscal year sales: $4.8 billion...