Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Investigators from the Federal Aviation Agency, Civil Aeronautics Board and FBI arrived like an army at the crash sites. From Dayton, Ohio, where he had just delivered a speech honoring the Wright brothers, FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada sped to New York to direct the investigation. The answers to all the dark question marks would come only with careful sifting of evidence, but educated guesswork by trained observers already pointed...
...seats 25 passengers (v. twelve for the Sikorsky S-58 now in use in Chicago and Los Angeles, and 21 for the old DC-3), has an estimated direct operating cost of 8? per seat mile (v. 16? per seat mile for the older ships), cruises at 136 m.p.h. To attract more passengers, the S-61 has a plush, airliner-like interior designed by Raymond Loewy Associates. Los Angeles Airways has ordered five ships, at $650,000 apiece, intends to put the first two in service in late summer when Federal Aviation Agency approval is expected to be granted. Chicago...
...FALL DOWN, by James Leo Herlihy. An odd-lot family and a trusting girl direct their love toward a big brother and lover who pays them back in evil coin. The boy hero is the symbol of all deceived childhood, and the author ranges from the wretchedly seedy to the near lyrical with authority and originality...
...three proposed alternatives to the present electoral system keeps this important liberal advantage. Even the advocates of direct popular election admit that the Southern and small states would never permit it, and it is thus out of the question. Nor is the plan whereby a state's votes would be allocated proportionate to its popular vote wise from the liberal point of view; in fact, this plan is favored by the one-party South precisely because it would split the votes of the great populous urban states, leaving the Southern vote unified. A third formula, to elect electors from Congressional...
...just attended was all that Editor Harold Fey said it was: two leading churchmen had proposed seriously that U.S. Protestants begin at once to unite in a single church. Church unity is something both clergymen and laymen have been talking about for years, but this was the most direct and concrete proposal yet. The man who made it was a rugged, dimpled Presbyterian liberal-Eugene Carson Blake...