Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creature imprisoned by its own structure and procedures. It is unable to form clear policy. It is unable to make sound and comprehensive plans. It is unable to administer its affairs with vigor and dispatch." Such was the biting indictment of the Civil Aeronautics Board made by former CAB Member Louis Hector in his letter of resignation to President Eisenhower last fall. Last week this view was echoed-and then some-by the U.S. airline industry. The industry is beset by jet-age problems that cry for solution-and airmen feel that CAB is trying to solve them with...
...last week, reported United Press International in a dispatch datelined Seoul. But to one American newsman, Scripps-Howard Correspondent Jim G. Lucas, 45, the words must have had an odd ring. For the same demonstrators who were so kind to other foreign reporters had chased Lucas clean out of Korea...
...wife of an industrial physicist, Teacher Levin is the mother of three sons (aged 6, 10, 12) and a sometime novelist who contributes frequent book reviews to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A University of Wisconsin graduate, she began teaching in Tulsa this year. As a supplement to the regular reading list, e.g., Canterbury Tales, she supplied paperback editions of Catcher because it seemed to her "a beautiful and moving story." It was not required reading...
...sort of friendly Freddie that P. G. Wodehouse likes to write about. A graduate of Oxford and the army, he takes a job at the missile works run by his uncle (Dennis Price), who suggests he start at the bottom. So the hero goes blithely to work in the dispatch bay, while Director John Boulting goes slyly to work on the spivs he sees at both ends of Britain's social scale-on the unions that leave a worker free to join or starve and don't care if production goes up so long as wages...
Most Southern editorial pages simply ignored South Africa. Some took refuge in the obvious: observed the Richmond Times Dispatch, "The attempted assassination of Prime Minister Verwoerd emphasizes once again the explosive nature of South Africa's dilemma." There were a few scattered voices of reason. Inquired the Tampa Tribune: "How could the white supremacists expect the Negroes to submit indefinitely to degradation and oppression in their own land...