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Airplane pilots must be at least high school graduates, although most companies will only accept men with college degrees. Before becoming an officer, a pilot must have a minimum of 100 hours of flying time, and held a commercial pilot rating, an instrument rating, and a third-class radiotelephone operator's license...
...Stay Out. A Cambridge graduate (third-class honors), Mutesa II is a handsome, 29-year-old Muganda of the ruling Mushroom clan. He put on a dark brown suit, knotted his regimental tie (the blue and scarlet stripes of the Grenadier Guards, in which Mutesa is an honorary captain) and drove off in his black limousine. He and Governor Cohen talked for two hours. The interview was not a success. Out stalked the governor; in strode a British policeman with a warrant for the King's arrest. Forthwith, His Highness got orders to clear out of his native Uganda...
Part of the press asserted, with an air of tolerant wisdom, that Eisenhower was paying a political debt incurred in the 1952 campaign. Actually, any debt that Ike owed Warren could have been paid by a third-class postmastership. At the G.O.P. convention in Chicago last year, Warren's California delegates did cast their votes for the Eisenhower side in the battle of the contested delegations, but that was the proper strategy for Candidate Warren, who was then hoping for a deadlock. When the balloting for President came, California voted for Warren and never switched. In the campaign, Warren...
...Delhi, the Maharaja thoughtfully provided him with a secretary to guide him through the intricacies of modern life and parliamentary government. But the first thing the secretary did was to use Kesa's first-class government travel allowance for himself and put the chief into a crowded third-class compartment. In New Delhi the secretary rented two rooms in the chief's name, moved into one room himself, sublet the other, and made Kesa sleep on the veranda. He also took all of Kesa's money...
...with laughter last week. Ninety-nine Nationalist members of Parliament assembled there, not as legislators but as so-called judges. They thought it was a great joke, and kept calling to each other: "Goeie more, Meneer Regt;" (Good morning, Mister Judge). But for South Africa's second-and third-class citizens, the joke was a grim...