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...COLLISION DANGER is diminishing. CAB reports that near misses of aircraft in flight averaged 1.4 per day in last quarter of 1957 v. 3.6 in first quarter. Reason: at urging of Government and pilots' union, more pilots are flying on instruments in good as well as bad weather...
Jigsaw Saga. At last, convinced that he was a phony, the university hospitals' doctors sent Lamphere packing with a bus ticket to Chicago, gave him money out of their own pockets for cab fare to the terminal. He never got there, but stayed drunk in a downtown hotel, was soon back at the hospital, coughing blood and fevered (103°), pleading for readmission. He won it. After a few days he went berserk, terrorized the ward, smashed furniture and equipment, gashed his thigh with scissors. After more such self-inflicted wounds, Lamphere was committed to a mental hospital...
SLICK AIRWAYS, one of earliest and biggest U.S. airfreight carriers, will shut down scheduled runs because of operating losses of $2,500,000 in 1957 (plus another $473,000 in January), will lay off about 500 employees and ground 14 planes. Slick's hope: a CAB subsidy...
PACIFIC ROUTE BATTLE between Northwest Airlines and Pan American has been won by Northwest. Pan Am wanted to fly to Tokyo from West Coast via Alaska, a monopoly "now held by Northwest. CAB turned down request, and White House concurred...
AIRLINE TRAFFIC flew out ahead of both railroads and bus lines in 1957 for first time in history, reports CAB. Box score: 25.8 billion passenger-miles for U.S. airlines v. 25.2 billion for intercity buses, 21.6 billion for railroads...