Word: super
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson's stretch-out and cutback policies with too little protest and too much relish. On Capitol Hill, within a fortnight investigating committees of both House and Senate have been critical of Quarles. In the Pentagon, he is in disfavor with the Navy (for criticizing super carriers), with the Army (for refusing it medium-range missiles), and with the Air Force, although he was Air Force Secretary before becoming Wilson's assistant. Air Force corridor gossip accuses Quarles of accepting Air Force budget cuts too complaisantly, of refusing to be "tarred with the Air Force...
Councilor Joseph DeGuglielmo '29 also opposed the proposal on the grounds that a provision barring road construction from the area might mean "economic death" for the metropolitan area. He argued that if the proposed super-high-way had to cross this section, the bill could delay road building for a year...
Capital likes the Viscount as an aircraft, and its estimates of operating costs proved out almost to the penny. The trouble is its size. The Viscount's 44-seat capacity puts it at a disadvantage against 60-to 90-passenger Douglas DC-7s and Lockheed Super Constellations on highly traveled routes. Moreover, when Capital switched to Viscounts, it was unable to sell its aging fleet of DC-4s and early-model Constellations. Capital still flies the old planes, estimates that its inability to sell them cost about $1,000,000 last year, just about the extent of its deficit...
...cost accommodations are now available to Harvard and Radcliffe faculty and students for a flight to Europe this summer, Stephen Salomon '58 has announced. Salomon has chartered a Flying Tigers Super G Constellation with seating space for 114 passengers...
...dizzy with solitary gin? ... Where is Leonard who thought he was a locomotive? . . . What became of Jim Oppenheim? . . . Where is Sol Funaroff? What happened to Potamkin? . . . One sat up all night talking to H. L. Mencken and drowned himself in the morning." Then the Rexroth verse turns to a super Bohemian and aman who was also a good poet: Dylan Thomas. When Rexroth first read the poem, 500 fans stormed The Cellar (seating capacity: 43) to hear...