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...such "de-escalation" would constitute the kind of "serious and sustained effort...to reach a negotiated settlement" that the Ad Hoc Committee's petition demands. Indeed, in context it appears that the scholars are recommending this small gesture not in the hope of thereby bringing the war to a speedier end, but rather as a token concession to mollify the anti-war movement here at home: "Nothing would do more to strengthen American support for our basic position," they write, than modest de-escalation...
Other problems are posed by the FAA's lack of control over the flights of many of the nation's private aircraft. All commercial airlines and some of the larger and speedier private planes use the airways, operating under instrument flight rules (IFR) even in clear weather to take advantage of the separation and protection afforded by FAA controllers. But many small planes fly by visual flight rules (VFR), permissible when visibility is greater than three miles. Pilots flying VFR are responsible only for seeing and avoiding other aircraft, and are not even prohibited from entering busy FAA control zones...
Radcliffe girls had mixed reactions to the new plan, Lucy M. Candib '63 expressed the most common opinion when she said "Although buffet meals are more efficient and will make meals speedier for everyone it would tend to be barbaric if there were no opportunity for sit-down meals." Another sophomore said she thought "much better conversation gets going when you have buffet meals...
Died. Colby Mitchell Chester, 88, president and then chairman of General Foods Corp., a Wall Street lawyer who took over the presidency of small Postum Cereal in 1924 and began an expansion program that resulted five years later in the merger of 15 food companies, continued to develop ever speedier convenience foods (Minute Rice, JellO, Birds Eye) until sales reached $260 million at his retirement in 1941, $1.5 billion last year; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...
Paris traffic being what it is, Correspondent Judson Gooding found the bicycle the best bet for skimming to and from interviews, far speedier than taxis or the Metro. One of his colleagues had to resort to a more elaborate approach. Since the press was not welcome at the funeral of Porfirio Rubirosa, the Paris Bureau's Robert Smith dressed in black, hired a black-capped chauffeur and a black limousine and set out to cover the story. He had no trouble. Naturally the most varied and militant types of transport were put to use by our Saigon Bureau staffers...