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...claim, while self-serving, is not without historical basis. The 22 trunk carriers certified in 1938 have shrunk to eleven today, and the four largest airlines-United, American, TWA and Eastern-have 70% of the domestic business. What the CAB must now decide is whether this trend, which could well result in the end of what competition remains among the major domestic carriers, is desirable-or, if it is not, whether it could be reversed. What neither the Federal Government nor the airlines themselves have yet produced is a viable overall plan for making sense of a business that remains...
...media hot and media cool have shrunk the world to the dimensions of Marshall McLuhan's global village, then last week's Academy Awards made a certain amount of sense. Hollywood's annual orgy of self-adulation was really the commencement exercises at good old Global Village High, complete with prizes, dull speeches, strained humor, amateurish entertainment-and one hell of a party afterward, for winners and losers alike. At least two things made this year's ceremony, silly as it always is, a little bit different: the most popular girl ended up winning none...
...troops on bases from Thailand to Japan; under the new withdrawals announced last week by President Nixon (see THE NATION), the total will fall below 420,000 by June 30. By year's end, moreover, the British Far East Command will have shrunk to a token presence of 4,000 men and a few ships based in Malaysia and Singapore, plus three or four Gurkha battalions elsewhere...
...spectrum of careers deemed suitable by Harvard students has shrunk considerably over the past few years, said James D. Wickenden, associate director of the OG and CP. Students shy away from business careers, fearing that "their identities would be subsumed and their energies misdirected," he said...
...Louis University has scrapped its schools of aeronautical science and dentistry, letting 40 faculty members go in the process; at Harvard, programs have shrunk in the schools of design, divinity and education. Berkeley is doing without research institutes in social sciences and earthquakes; Tulane has dropped six graduate programs. Predominantly black Fisk is phasing out its Afro-American Institute. For every cutback mentioned in the report, says Cheit, there are many more at other institutions. Numerous schools are reducing urban-service programs, library books and scholarships for poor or minority-group students...