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CAPITAL AIRLINES, whose British-made Viscounts pioneered turboprop service in the U.S., is in such deep trouble that it has asked CAB to restore subsidy and shuck off some money-losing short runs. Capital, basically a line of short routes with high operating costs, expects to lose $2.5 million this year, $7.5 million next year. CAB is likely to refuse subsidy plea, but may let line drop some routes...
Horse Winner. In Minot, N. Dak., when a riderless horse ran into Warren Melby's 1957 Chevrolet cab at a main intersection, the cab suffered $400 damages, the horse...
HIGHER AIR FARES seem certain after CAB ends its general passenger-fare investigation. CAB staff, which turned down seven domestic carriers' applications for an interim 6% fare increase, now recommends that instead of 8% on their money, trunk lines should be allowed to earn a 9% profit, regional carriers...
...story at first seems to be a French Alice in Wonderland, but soon ties some reality to the originally puzzling circumstances. A young milliner finds herself on a Brittany estate where an ice cream man sell no ice cream, a cab driver keeps rabbits in his ivy-grown cab, and Helen Hayes, looking like a magnificent ninety-year-old Mad- woman of Chaillot, sweeps in and out of the reception room, ecstatically explaining nothing. It shortly becomes clear that the Duchess (Helen Hayes) has in various ways frozen time, for the sake of her melancholy nephew the prince (Richard Burton...
...audience relies on Petersen's magazines each month for soup-it-yourself advice, advance reports on the new cars, and styling tips for faddists who keep their autos a la mode with rear-seat TV, stain-pearl paint made of crushed fish scales, "chopped tops" (i.e., lowering the cab) and taillight kits that make a 1952 Ford as finny as a '57 Plymouth...