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...Flying Tiger DC-8 cargo jet approached Runway 22-L. Suddenly, the unpredictable winds shook the 350,000-lb. plane. Pilot Jack Bliss fought to retain control. "Wind shear on approach," he warned the tower. "The wind pulls you down and turns you over ... you should close that runway." But he landed on it anyway, safely...
...British voice booming over the loudspeaker cautioned the spectators to be quiet while the horse in the ring was performing so as not to disturb it. At the sound of his voice a number of horses behind us started up. I shook my head at the Catch-22-ness...
...somewhat tentative conclusion, Riesman suggests that the damage done to meritocracy at Harvard is permanent. Part of the reason for this, he says, is that the onset of radicalism shook the faith of the faculty, and replaced it with a contagious cynicism. He does not claim that meritocracy will disappear from Harvard all at once, explaining that "an institution like an individual can continue to live with a lot of ruin within the system...
...department's senior faculty last fall, based to a great extent on the strength of that disputed, 480-page manuscript. When kearns switched publishers in April, The New York Times ran a long story. The Wall Street Journal editorialized that Harvard should deny her tenure, a lot of people shook their heads in Cambridge, and the dean of the Harvard Faculty reconvened the Government Department...
...shouldn't a black be a ballet dancer?" No reason why not, said former City Ballet Member Arthur Mitchell, the first black artist to become a principal dancer in a major ballet company. In 1969, Mitchell and Dance Pedagogue Karel Shook started the only black classical company in the U.S. Today they preside over a school of 1,000 and an exuberant troupe of 27. Chicagoans will have the chance to see stylish, unaffected dancers next week...