Word: slower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Alaska Federation of Labor President Bob McFarland, 47 (home town, Republic, Wash.): "You find so many brilliant people here, people attracted by the sense of challenge that Hawaii, for example, could never supply. Yet life is slower and tastier somehow. I've been back to New York twice-a walk up Times Square and I've just about had it. Now put the reins in our hands and see what we do with it." Says Governor Mike Stepovich: "Only the people of little faith are against statehood...
...Steinberg with icy politeness, "why are you in such a hurry? We do admire the playing of the orchestra, and we are surprised they can play all the notes, but we would rather listen to the music of Mendelssohn." The young man on the podium flushed, resumed at a slower tempo. Hour after hour, it went on that way last week while 19 fledgling baton wavers flailed away under Steinberg's watchful eye through Liverpool's international competition for conductors...
...recently as 18 months ago, demand was so strong that fully depreciated planes could often be sold for more than they cost; ancient DC-3s were bringing $140,000 v. an original cost of $85,000. But with turboprops and jets on the way, airlines lost interest in slower aircraft, and prices tumbled 40% to 60%. American Airlines, which has four DC-7s currently for sale and may have up to 25 more by July 1959, is asking $1,200,000 for an aircraft that cost $2,000,000 new. A DC-6B that cost $1,300,000 might have...
...pilot needs at least three seconds to see and react to an approaching plane; with both planes flying at 300 miles per hour (considerably slower than the speed of the jet airliners which will enter service this winter), three seconds means half a mile. In other words, by the time a pilot can adjust his course to avoid another plane, the other plane is upon him. In addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does...
...Theodore H. (for Harold) White (Thunder Out of China, Fire in the Ashes) projects a well-crafted first novel. A June Book-of-the-Month Club co-selection, The Mountain Road combines a pistol-paced war story with the education of a quiet American major whose cultural reflexes are slower than his command decisions...