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...this summer is disturbing on a number of counts. It is disturbing that students were callow enough in their pursuit of grades to take advantage of the course's innovative, low-pressure structure to get advance answers to its tests. It is disturbing that medical school admissions are so stringent and quantitative that pre-medical students--who made up almost all of Physics S-1--feel the need to cheat in order to raise their grades from...
...long, stormy letdown of Pan American World Airways has been as visible as a thunderhead, and just as ominous. Pressed by soaring fuel costs and shrinking transatlantic passenger loads, Pan Am lost $18.4 million last year, despite a stringent cost-cutting program imposed by Chairman William T. Seawell: 8,000 of 40,000 employees have been fired. By July of this year, matters were even worse. Losses were running in the $30 million range, and Pan Am and TWA, a line with even greater first-half losses but lesser troubles overall, had appealed to the Civil Aeronautics Board for federal...
...gain a majority, but Wilson's advisers see no advantage in delaying the balloting, especially since experts predict that Britain's economic situation will only get worse in the near future. Yet if another minority government is elected, it may not be able to impose the necessary stringent economic measures; hostility between Britain's classes could grow and create a political crisis. Trade Union Leader Hugh Scanlon has already warned that a vote against Labor is a "vote for industrial chaos this winter." Rightist groups led by retired military officers are organizing volunteers to keep essential services...
...curiosity: a rip-off of a ripoff. It will be remembered that the original cartoon feature Fritz the Cat - largely the work of the animator Ralph Bakshi - so enraged Fritz's creator, the underground comic artist R. Crumb, that he disowned the whole movie. Crumb, a stringent satirist, had conjured up Fritz as a way to mock the poses of the pseudo hipster and to lay waste the giddy excess of the culture from which he sprang. Bakshi slicked Fritz up, cooled him out, and turned him into the perfect creature of everything Crumb had put down...
...years. He was helped by a divisive GOP primary and a shirtsleeve campaign against development: "Vermont is not for sale " A lawyer who was a judge at 30 and the youngest minority leader in the history of the state house of representatives at 35, Salmon has helped enact stringent laws to control land development and speculation. Rather than seek retiring Senator George Aiken's seat he is running for a second term, intending to complete the programs he has begun...