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...maintain its strength, the Air Force figures that it must retain 59 of every 100 pilots and 54 of every 100 navigators after twelve years of service. Today only 27 pilots and 40 navigators per 100 trained are still in uniform at the end of this period. The airlines are hiring 2,000 pilots a year, most of them right out of military cockpits. The Air Force estimates that a pilot with twelve years of experience has received pay, allowances and training worth roughly $4 million. "Trying to replace that experience is not only very expensive, but it takes time...
...says she's all for co-residency at Harvard, saying that Radcliffe's isolation made it difficult for women and men to meet socially. "I think the informality is more like the way people actually live," she says. but many Radcliffe alums continue to maintain that the school should retain its heritage and a symbolic independence from Harvard, an independence which they say gives women an important, unifying identity...
...world's most fertile soil, like that on the Indonesian island of Java, has been created by lava and ash from volcanoes. The crystalline material, mostly silicates, is often rich ash only calcium and a variety of other elements. The lava and ash not only help the soil retain moisture but they weather rapidly and usually release valuable nutrients. Volcanic debris can also be used commercially as cement additives, as ingredients in pharmaceuticals and in the production of soaps and cleaners. Some engineers are talking of tapping the heat of volcanoes directly (by circulating water through them); one such...
Peking continues to call for a resumption of postal, telegraphic and air links between the mainland and Taiwan as a first step toward reunification. If this goal were achieved, Chinese authorities insist, Taiwan would be able to retain autonomy in most areas of life, including its own social system. Says Shi Hungyao, 47, a member of the Fuzhou city government, who emigrated to Fujian from Taiwan in 1948: "We recognize that Taiwan's standard of living is much higher than our own, so we don't want to do anything to change their style of life." Taiwan remains...
Munro, Davidson and Grum are all former magazine publishers, but unlike their two predecessors, they are not former newsmen (Heiskell began as a science editor at LIFE and Shepley served as Washington bureau chief for TIME). The new top executives emphasized, however, that they would retain Time Inc.'s commitment to quality publishing. "I'm not a journalist, but I've got ink in my veins too," says Munro. "It's the magazine group that makes this company different." While publisher of TIME, Davidson worked closely with the editors in the magazine's development...