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...pilot-executives, who are not active members of A.L.P.A. But the executives are fast approaching their flying-time limits of 255 hours a quarter, and further schedule cuts may soon be necessary. The pilots' pay is already well above that of many executives. Assistant Vice President for Communications Waldo Lynch, who is filling in as a pilot, gets $22,658 a year, or about $2,000 less than a Pan Am pilot...
...innocence are frequent. Writes Book Critic Lewis Gannett ('13): "I was the pure young man from a Western New York minister's home, who had never smoked more than a corn-silk cigarette, and tried to hold the freshman beer night ... to ginger ale. One learned." Artist Waldo Peirce ('07) admits that "Leavitt & Peirce was probably one of the reasons it took me five years to get a degree, though the B in A.B. didn't stand for billiards...
Mulder and Mortensen have also garnered brief accounts of Mormonism from a lineup of 19th century notables: Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson (who called Mormonism an "after-clap of Puritanism"), John Greenleaf Whittier, and Mark Twain. The latter's revulsion at the concept of polygamy melted at his first sight of the "poor, ungainly and pathetically 'homely' creatures" that were the Mormon wives. "No," Twain wrote, "--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries...
...loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
...Waldo B. Jones of the Harvard AFROTC Unit also reported that the Air Force will begin to offer deferment to ROTC graduates who are candidates for a Ph.D., if their field of study is of potential benefit to the Air Force...