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...with such statistics in mind that United, TWA and American, in addition to seeking to restrict the hours and days their "Discover America" fares may be used, proposed to abolish their $200 excursion fare for transcontinental round trips and get the price back to $217. United President George Keck describes such moves as "a logical first step" toward raising airline profits. This amounted to a broad hint that next year the carriers may ask for a general fare increase, their first since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Dumping the Discounts | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...Making "pass" equivalent to a C-minus would obviously not be a very stringent requirement, but it would slightly restrict the number of students who could comfortably experiment under pass-fail. Because such a restriction is inconsistent with the plan's purpose, D-minus should be the minimum grade for "pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pass-Fail Debate | 11/22/1967 | See Source »

Sophomore tutorial should become an ungraded half-course for credit. The department should give students the time to make tutorial the substantial academic experience it now has the potential of being. And grading would only restrict the student's chances to experiment with the field he is beginning and would unnecessarily force tutors to slap precise grade judgments on tutees they often live with in the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History Department Change | 11/8/1967 | See Source »

...call for some comment. I believe it is a recognized principle of democracy that government, because of its vastly greater power, must be subject to greater restraints than the private citizen. There can be no reasonable comparison between the power of a group of students to restrict a man's movements for several hours and the power of a Senate Committee to ruin a man for life. There was, for a time during the 50's, a real danger that the expression of certain viewpoints in this country would be suppressed. There has never been the slightest danger, in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MCCARTHYISM AND DOW | 11/6/1967 | See Source »

...down guidelines designed to reduce the risks assumed by a testifying defendant. In the first place, the court noted, the nature of the previous conviction is important. Eager prosecutors often try to drag in everything on the record. In the future, said the court, it might be well to restrict previous crimes mentioned to those "which reflect adversely on a man's honesty and integrity." Acts of violence, the opinion continued, do not seem to have much to do with truth-telling, while "acts of deceit, fraud, cheating and stealing" generally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Witnesses: When Defendants Testify | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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