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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort into it than I put now into my racing," he recalls. Between 1957 and 1962 he won the Irish, Welsh, English and British champion ships and was named as a substitute to the British Olympic trap team. Finally persuaded to race at Charterhall, where Clark had made his start several years earlier, Stewart finished third. To fool his mother, he says, "I snuck out to race under the nom de plume of A. N. Other. I thought that terribly clever...
...from Columbia (1951) and learned administration as dean of the graduate school at the University of North Carolina. His first move on taking over as chancellor of Vanderbilt in 1963 was to call in student leaders to discuss campus affairs, a move that got him off to a good start with the student body. He then requested a written self-appraisal from each department, getting response from 285 faculty and staff members. This netted him a 4,400-page report 16.3 inches high, all of which he read and used to good effect...
...jumbo jets may cut operating expenses about 25%. But before the money-saving giants start taking off, airmen expect damaging labor strikes. The first strikes will probably hit in early August and could force some cancellations of vacation flights. As much as 45% of an airline's operational expenses consists of labor costs. Every additional wage increase would cut closer to the quick. In the longer run, some mergers seem almost inevitable to reduce the problems of climbing costs and too much competition for too little traffic. If the U.S. can get by with only four auto manufacturers...
...deal reached in Paris, $3.5 billion in SDRs will be issued next year. More than $700 million will go to the U.S. An additional $3 billion will be issued in each of the succeeding two years. That is not quite as much as the U.S. hoped for as a start, but it is more than Continental nations wanted...
...their periodic meetings. The U.S. will be represented by the State Department's William Rogers, Commerce's Maurice Stans and Agriculture's Clifford Hardin, as well as Paul McCracken, the President's chief economic adviser. They will urge their Japanese counterparts to start removing import quotas on 120 products, and move faster in approving requests from U.S. companies that want to set up joint ventures in Japan to build cars, electronic components and other high-technology products. Relations between the U.S. and Japan are becoming steadily closer-and closeness creates friction...