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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language operators and manufacturers have rarely heard before, the agency has indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless in the manufacture of a propeller which tore loose on an airliner that crashed in Ohio last year (dead: 38) and has pointed to managerial sloppiness as the real root of a Frontier Airlines crash in Colorado in which the pilot and copilot, the plane's only occupants, died. At week's end, the safety board dispatched a special team to Texas to investigate the crash of a Braniff International Electra, with 84 aboard, during a heavy thunderstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Traveler's Friend | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Knack is such an ingenuously nice play, expressing all the right sentiments, that you root hard for it to pull you in. To watch it stumble around is a terrible disappointment; hopefully, some of the stumbling can be corrected before it ends its week-long...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: The Knack | 5/8/1968 | See Source »

Lindsay said that the problems of the cities will only be solved by "attacking the root causes." These problems, he said, are "beyond the means of any single person to correct...

Author: By Sandra E. Ravich, | Title: Lindsay Denounces Force in Cities, Calls for Ways to 'Relieve Tensions' | 4/22/1968 | See Source »

...doesn't make sense that Harvard is unable to enlarge the kitchen, remove the steamtables, and install a dish return tunnel during the summer of 1969, especially since Harvard summers are four months long. Since the Administration has offered no other evidence, it seems that money lies at the root of this problem: it's probably cheaper to close the dining hall for eight months. Yet, even granting that construction plans for Mather House require that the dining hall be closed, the plans could be changed. The Administration's obvious reluctance to issue even preliminary facts and figures suggest some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outrage at Dunster | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

While social workers can get to the root causes of the social, mental, and physical disease faced by doctors of the poor, a medical approach to social work can make the ticklish problem of "getting into" a family easier. It's not respectable to be poor or unemployed, but it's respectable to be sick...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: A Housing Project and a Health Clinic--From Body Counts To "Personalized Medicine" | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

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