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Savage Squeeze. The year-round plan also spreads the load that children put on museums and public libraries. When the stagger system begins at the high school next July, it should keep down the number of idle, trouble-prone teenagers who tend to congregate on the streets during the warm months. Says Thomas Mandeville, father of a Valley View pupil: "The kids used to get bored with summer and restless with the long school year. Breaking it up is good for them. It's good for us too." Most instructors have willingly given up their usual summer vacations...
...graduate, students will have to earn 33 credits, a reduction from the present 36. This means that the normal course load will consist of three courses per semester for 11 terms. There will be no extra charge, however, if a student takes tour courses a term, tuition will be charged on the basis of terms in residence. Students will also have the option of taking only two courses...
...hardest decisions that Halaby faces involve cutting Pan Am's elephantine overhead costs. The line is paying interest rates as high as 11¼% to finance its 747s. Pan Am has a poor 54% passenger break-even load factor v. 48% for TWA. Salvation through the merger route is improbable, as Halaby now concedes. What healthy domestic line would want to team up with a troubled giant? The chance of Government help is also a long shot, mostly because of congressional opposition. The CAB could award Pan Am some domestic feeder routes, but most domestic runs are already overcrowded...
...Dulles (and lauded by Congressman Richard Nixon) calculated that the spread of communism had to be stopped from reaching South East Asia, gold mine for new international markets and cheap labor. Without hesitation, America stepped up its support of the French war in Indo-China and took over the load in 1954. Later in the 60's, Secretary of State Dean Rusk staunchly supported this dual policy of containment of China and "protection of American interests...
...earned $14.1 million on that route), the lines would have to fly their planes 75% full on the average. "Given the seasonal characteristics of this market," said TWA Senior Vice President Elaine Cook, "to average 75% year round, you would have to maintain something like a 120% load factor in the summertime...