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...that U.S. airlines have decided to hold off on jet transports, probably until 1960. It will take at least five, possibly seven, years for them to amortize their costly new fleets of piston-engined craft, some of which will not even be delivered until 1957. Furthermore, there is little likelihood that a U.S. jet transport will be on the market for some time to come. In Washington last week, Air Force Assistant Secretary Roger Lewis told Boeing Airplane Co., which had hoped to turn out a commercial version of its giant KC-135 jet tanker by 1958, that...
...This he believes to be the world's highest abortion rate, though he admits that it is impossible to prove the point statistically. Japan's abortions are legal, or almost so: the law permits them if there is danger to the mother's health or a likelihood that the child will be subnormal. In practice, reports Dr. Pommerenke, it is usually enough for a woman to say that her husband is out of work, or that it will be difficult for the family to feed another mouth...
...present quota is too severe, putting undue emphasis on freshman mid-year grades," he continued. "Those grades are not indicative of a student's intellectual potential." He said that he expected the new quota to relieve some of the grade pressure for prospective concentrators. He also saw some likelihood of a gradual increase in the number of concentrators in the future...
...Capehart said yesterday that he could not speculate on the likelihood of asking Galbraith to reappear. "I have done all I can do. The executive session will have to be called by Sen. Fulbright, an dthe decision on Galbraith will rest with the committee," he said...
...Salvation Army, which devotes part of its area to showing amputees how they can lead active, useful lives. In South Korea there are now four prosthetic stations; Torrey and his fellow missionaries have fitted more than 800 artificial limbs and treated nearly 1,000 amputees. There is little likelihood that the work will diminish: land mines, unexploded shells, unguarded railway crossings, and the dearth of safety devices on machinery will bring thousands more to the clinic...