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...history, 33 jets totaling $162 million. The airlines have usually picked up many pilots from the ranks of young officers who quit the Air Force after a few years; but with the switch to missiles, the military is training fewer pilots. Simultaneously, many of the pioneering pilots of the 1920s and 1930s are reaching the compulsory retirement age of 60. The Air Line Pilots Association figures that 1,400 older commercial pilots-10% of the nation's total-will get their wings clipped within the next decade. Says A.L.P.A.'s magazine: "Only a national emergency requiring the training...
...prattle of Babbittry and, octaves above, the silent scream of tedium. The prose in which they are described is also joyless and hateless, empty of merit and of error, painfully boring. And it is obvious that this is intentional. Farrell's setting is St. Louis in the 1920s, and his method is to make his readers suffer at the same pace as his characters...
Anti-Yankee Feelings. This picture of business-government cooperation was not painted without problems. The two Standard Oil subsidiaries that began drilling in Venezuela in the early 1920s, and later Creole (which was set up in its present form by their merger in 1943), were often ripe targets for anti-Yankee feelings. In the early days, only Americans held top posts, employees lived in fenced-in company compounds, and Creole often engaged in shouting contests with the government. But under low-keyed President Harry Jarvis, 55, a 17-year Creole veteran who took over in 1961, the company has tried...
...member of the idealistic de Stijl group (TIME, May 8) in the 1920s, he planned spiral buildings before Frank Lloyd Wright built the Guggenheim Museum, and proposed horizontal skyscrapers on cantilevers before Le Corbusier built them. Rarely has he realized what he has designed on paper; he has, for example, never built the "endless house," a sculpture to live in, that made his fame...
Strange Talk. The reader may notice a peculiar thing about the way people talk in Hemingway's book-like Hemingway characters, in fact. Some characters-in or out of fiction-did learn to talk this way, but that was later. Yet here they are in the early 1920s, before A Farewell to Arms was ever written, talking like Lieut. Henry, Hemingway, of course, knows what he is doing, and it shows in the fact that he does not try to work the old conversational trick on those well-enough known to have a recognizable style of their own. Ezra...