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Nationalism has caught on in Watts not because it is a new and exciting idea, but because it is an approach to the race problem which is grounded in the reality of being a ghetto Negro. It is not that nationalists or quasi-nationalists are trying to persuade or propagandize...
Another of the myths, grounded partially in fact, is that an atmosphere of academic confidence is lacking. The Confi Guide article noted that if you wanted everyone on campus to know gritty little things about you, all you had to do was take 120. Bales insisted that every precaution was...
Woolman's successor, except for devotion to Delta, is an opposite. Charles Dolson is brusque where C.E. was affable, reserved where Woolman was outgoing. St. Louis-born, Dolson earned a civil-engineering degree at Washington University ('28), then became a Navy carrier pilot. Switching to commercial aviation, he...
The Casualties. By Government and industry reckoning, the 43-day strike cost the U.S. economy at least $3 billion; it was the nation's most serious strike since the 116-day steel stoppage in 1959. The five grounded airlines-United, TWA, Eastern, National and Northwest-lost $335 million in...
In all, some 7,000,000 would-be passengers were grounded, delayed or forced to revise their plans. Such frustration fell most burdensomely on 16,000 TWA travelers temporarily stranded in Europe. The only strikebound line that flies across the Atlantic, TWA loaded other airlines with its strandees-a move...