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Almost unnoticed in the excitement was the tacit admission of American Overseas Airlines that Pan Am's rate-cutting might have been justified. American too cut its New York-London fare to $375. This, it admitted, was still too high. But, it said piously, it would ask I.A.T.A. for permission to reduce fares further, thus conforming to Britain's rules...
...Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo. It is reported with a tacit grasp of the overall strategy, an identification, remarkable in a correspondent, between Sherrod and the officers and men (chiefly of the U.S. Marine Corps) with whom he shared many of the hazards of war, an exhilarating sense of the grandeur (as well as the misery) of battle. There are striking impressions...
...report, by far the most comprehensive of the four, noted that "the 1931 Committee was able to take as an unwritten premise . . . that the tutorial system was a permanent institution at Harvard. . . . Today no one could safely make a tacit assumption that tutorial is here to stay. There is a widespread feeling, among students and among faculty members, that it is disintegrating...
...group of Congressmen started a campaign of frankness to improve relations with Russia. They asked Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew: "Has the United States, through some tacit understanding, or through day-to-day working relations, become . . . part of an Anglo-American front against the Soviet Union?" Grew said no, adding that there was no part of the world where U.S. and Russian interests were in basic conflict...
...Bretton Woods, on which Congress opened hearings. By tacit consent Congress will decide the fate of the International Monetary Agreements. If the U.S. accepts them, other nations will fall in line; if it rejects them, they are dead...