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...dangerous and unlawful." The only nightclub in the world roomy enough to fly such a banner is improbably located on the tawrdry, whiffy flatlands near the southernmost tip of Brooklyn. The Town & Country, sometimes referred to as "Miami Beach in Flatbush," is a 45-minute drive and a $6 cab fare from Manhattan, but it fields a line of first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such names as Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett. Last week, even with an ailing (laryngitis) Judy Garland...
...February 1959, nearly six years after the study was proposed. Grimly, alphabetically, twelve lines have uttered millions of words trying to prove that they need a 20% boost in air fares, especially now that they must raise $2 billion for new jet fleets. Before this simple message even reaches CAB's examiner next summer, it will total some 20,000 pages, not counting exhibits. Then it will take another six paper-strangled months before a decision...
NEXT TARGET of congressional committee will be the CAB. Inquiry will look into charges that CAB commissioners are too chummy with airlines, will examine why White House sometimes reversed itself in international air route cases...
Overlap. In Tokyo, everyone was ruled blameless after a three-car collision involving 1) an expectant mother being rushed to the hospital in a taxi, 2) an off-duty traffic inspector chasing the cab, 3) the lady's obstetrician...
Lawyers and airline experts think the CAB-and, for that matter, all agencies -should confine their hearings wholly to development of facts, call on contesting lawyers only when the facts are in doubt. Says one lawyer: "This would cut down the time of airline hearings from three months to three days." Both the Hoover Commission and the American Bar Association want more drastic changes; they recommend transfer of the agencies' judicial functions to the courts. This would free the agencies to investigate and make decisions, leave the courts to enforce their decisions with injunctions or penalties...