Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIGs to their fate (TIME, Jan. 13). Flying a 1,450-m.p.h. F-4C Phantom fighter nicknamed Scat, he dropped one supersonic MIG-21 himself in that sortie, added another on May 4 while flying MIGCAP (for "combat air patrol") in a raid on the Hanoi transformer installation. A weekend ago, he and his "gibs" (guy-in-the-back-seat, or copilot) spotted 15 slower but more maneuverable MIG-17s coming up fast during a fighter-bomber raid 40 miles northeast of the Communist capital. The ensuing scramble lasted only eleven minutes ("It seemed like eight hours," says Olds...
...totally independent of this change, 308 Lowell House members have petitioned the Committee for a change in philosophy. Many of those who voted felt that a more natural attitude would prevail if the restrictions were removed during the week. This is not exactly accomplished by creating a two-night weekend to replace the former one-night weekend...
Five times since the end of World War II, the nations of the free world have laboriously negotiated tariff reductions, but the sum of those efforts has amounted to only a nibble at the barriers to expanding world trade and prosperity. Late last weekend, after four years of continuous and suspenseful bargaining, 53 non-Communist countries struggled to the verge of an agreement that should result in the biggest bundle of tariff cuts in history...
...three singles matches will be close. Yale's Jack Waltz was top seed in last weekend's New England Tournament but got knocked out in a first round upset. His opponent today, Harvard's John Levin, kept his cool in the tournament and made it to the final round before losing...
Also last weekend, while Yale and Princeton were settling the title, Harvard dropped out of the New England Intercollegiate championships at Providence. R.I. because of the weather "It poured and poured." Bo Keefe said last night. "It was just the worst possible weather...