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...STEEPER AIR FARES are almost assured for 1958. CAB's problem is when and how to grant raise without raising ire of Congressmen who opposed boost. Majority of board is convinced that present rate scale, little changed in ten years, cannot support lines...
...indeed a smashing blow, and it ended all Republican hopes that, by the election of Kohler and the death of one or another of several aging Democrats, they might get control of the Senate before the 1958 elections. It also made the G.O.P. election prospects look steeper...
...instructor is especially tempted by tenure at another university since the odds against gaining tenure at Harvard are always steeper than at other institutions. This, combined with the growing financial wealth of state supported universities places considerable pressure on Harvard to better the salary, living conditions, and working conditions of the teaching fellow, instructor, and assistant professor...
...Navy told how Test Pilot Tom Attridge was trying out the 20-mm. guns of a Grumman F11F-i fighter off Long Island. He put the airplane into a dive, speeded up to 880 m.p.h. and fired a four-second burst (about 70 rounds). Then he went into a steeper dive and fired another burst. As the last bullets left his guns, something struck and shattered his windshield. Pilot Attridge thought he had run down a bird. He headed for the Grumman base at Peconic River, but before he got there, his engine died. He crash-landed half a mile...
...Steeper tuition and a record high endowment couldn't save Yale from dipping into red ink. Tuition went up to $1,800 a year, and the endowment reached over $150 million in June, but operating expenses of over $22 million upset the budget...