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Last week WBMS lost $700 and the owners had to dip into personal capital to meet the employees' payroll. And Monday the station was obliged by necessity to abandon all attempts at compromise between esthetic and economic considerations. Now it plays almost exclusively "disc jockey" music. Only 350 listeners called up to complain of the change, which means a total listening audience of 7,000 by management figuring. No advertisers have cancelled since Monday, and one of them, a television dealer, reported a 500 percent increase in business...
Every advance of tutorial toward its former position is therefore a welcome sight. The Economics Department, which once was forced to abandon tutorial completely, is now expanding its present program to include both honors juniors and seniors. The department also promises to increase the effectiveness of senior tutorial, for too many students writing Economics theses have complained that they can only catch their tutors as the latter race through Littauer on the way from Washington to Paris...
...pilot. Besides flying his airplane and watching intently for the first sight of the ground below, he must also watch the ILS instruments or listen to the GCA talker, or do both to check one against the other. When the plane gets near the ground, both landing systems abandon it. The pilot must make the final approach and landing himself, though the visibility may still be too poor for him to see the ground properly. With the pilot's attention so completely occupied, any emergency, such as minor mechanical trouble, is more likely to develop into an accident...
...physicists, says Seitz, must forget their "sense of sin" about the atomic bomb and their feelings of guilt. They must abandon their "one world" pacifism. They must pitch in and help at once, or the civilization they love will sink back into medieval darkness...
...yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival and fair" in the wilderness, was their only contact with civilization. There they sold their furs, bought their supplies and spent their hard-earned profits in "roaring, riotous debauch, devoted in about equal measure to lethal whisky, reckless gambling . . .and an orgy of sexual abandon with the complacent Indian girls and squaws." The sun-blackened trappers modeled them selves after their No. 1 foe, the Indian...