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...before every trip, however short. As for pilots, the airlines select only one applicant out of 20, spend $1,000 an hour to train him, retest him every six months, send him back to flight school once a year, and pay him up to $40,000 a year. With rare exceptions, the pilots are well worth it. Says Jerome Lederer, director of the Flight Safety Foundation and one of the nation's top air-safety experts: "Unless he is a professional driver, no man is one-tenth as capable of driving as the greenest copilot is capable of flying...
...African Affairs, White tries to make sense out of America's current policy goals. Most significant of William's points are that the U.S. advocates African self-determination, the solution of African problems primarily through the Organization for African Unity, and a program of aid and trade involving only one-tenth of our world commitments. Williams also adds that "the support of freedom over communism is basic to...U.S. policy in Africa." In fact, White argues that American attempts to aid African development have not been successful in creating indigenous support for Western democracy, but that precedence has been given...
...composers. The project has so far produced eight new works, including such well-received productions as Douglas Moore's The Wings of the Dove and Robert Ward's The Crucible. Using enthusiasm to stretch his financial resources, Rudel is able to mount first-rate productions for one-tenth the cost of more elaborate opera companies. His singers represent the finest of the younger U.S. crop; at least 80 have gone on to sing...
...planned. Even more important, a maneuver of Gemini 6's second-stage launch rocket had placed the capsule in an orbital plane that nearly coincided with Gemini 7's; its path was almost directly below that of Gemini 7, slanting away at an angle of less than one-tenth...
...immediate action is taken, the August riots "may seem by comparison to be only a curtain raiser for what could blow up one day in the future." Highlights: > To erase the appalling gap between the educational levels of whites and Negroes in Los Angeles schools, it-urged a one-third reduction of class size in Negro schools, a permanent preschool teaching program to include all children from age three. Cost: at least $50 million, or roughly one-tenth of the city's total school budget. >To reduce Negro unemployment, it asked for establishment of job training and placement centers...