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...hand in both problems. After World War II, many airlines exuberantly overexpanded. Instead of using its power to impose restraint, CAB approved patchwork and often uneconomic route structures. Result: subsidy payments to airlines jumped from $19.7 million in 1946 to $83.8 million in 1950, before dropping again. Though all trunk lines are now off subsidy, CAB expects to dole out $69.3 million in fiscal 1961 to small feeder airlines, which still do not have enough money to replace their obsolete equipment...
...mockery of personal legal rights, suppressed newspapers, confiscated property and howled at the U.S. such epithets as "bandit, hypocrite, imperialist beast and thief." Secretary Herter gave the Cuban chargé d'affaires a good dressing down for the direct insults, but it was President Eisenhower who, after long restraint, finally passed public judgment on internal Cuban affairs. Writing to Chilean students who had asked about U.S.-Cuban policy, Ike said: "The idea of intervention into Cuban affairs is as distasteful to the U.S. as would be intervention into domestic affairs of any other American republic. In all candor...
...town in later life Mayer was an equally contradictory character-a classic Hollywood hunter who nevertheless "preferred to think of the women he embraced as sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal...
...burnished voice the natural embodiment of opera's great villains-the grandly tormented Macbeth, the insinuatingly oily hunchback Rigoletto, the ravening Count di Luna of Trovatore. But he was also wonderfully effective in roles that called for massive dignity and restraint-Germont in Traviata, the title role in Simon Boccanegra. What Warren lacked in natural acting ability he more than made up with his remarkable and splendidly controlled voice; it had impressive size, fine texture and immense range. Warren even commanded the top notes, including the high C that many a tenor lacks...
...chief, General Curtis LeMay, who has better things to do, to lead it. Defense Secretary Gates ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile...