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RECONFIRMATION RULE, which has plagued air travelers for more than three years, will be dropped June 15. After that, passengers will no longer have to check in six hours before flight time to confirm their reservations. Airlines decided that the savings were more than offset by passenger ill will...
...completely equipped with them by mid-1956. Included in the total: 35 all-chair cars, seating 67 passengers apiece, six diners, six dome lounge cars. While the height (15 ft. 6 in.) will cut speed on the bends, Santa Fe feels that on long-distance runs that drawback is offset by less noise and vibration...
...steady goaltending from Dudley's Oscar Swenson and Kirkland's Gordie Lunn may give the Rineharts enough defensive strength to offset the Wintergreen power. Rinehart captain and center Paul Brennan of Dudley can also count on a pair of sturdy defensemen in Kirkland's Mike Moskow and the Commuters' Art Tallas...
...Russians have H-bombs; the British will produce them. The United States concentrates on such weapons to offset the superior manpower of the Soviet bloc. Thus we have a competition in means of death with no end in sight-until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"-a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed...
Another man might have kept his shame to himself. Not Gaston. He not only told his wife and family; he insisted that something be done to offset his ancestor's shame-perhaps outfit a boat and attack an English yacht in sight of a Riviera crowd. His relatives were understanding but unmoved. Perhaps, said Gaston's brother, he could arrange to have his small son lick a British youngster his own age. Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace...