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Last week, reversing a lower-court decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington halted eviction of Cab Driver Rudder and his wife. Said the court's opinion, written by Chief Judge Henry W. Edgerton: "It [the Government] must not act arbitrarily, for, unlike private landlords, it is subject to the requirements of due process of law . . . The U.S. acted arbitrarily in undertaking to evict the Rudders. Their refusal to deny that they were members of any organizations on the [Attorney General's] consolidated list was not proof that they were members. Even proof that they were members...
Born in a taxicab in Tennessee, Slowest cab that you ever did see, Warmed up his bottle and he took him a nip - He didn't even leave the driver a tip! Davy, Davy Crewcut, the cat with the coonskin...
NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINES, biggest nonscheduled air carrier in the U.S., had its wings clipped. The Civil Aeronautics Board upheld an examiner's finding that North American runs scheduled flights in violation of CAB regulations (TIME, Feb. 28), ordered the line grounded effective Sept. 1. North American will appeal the CAB ruling to the federal courts, keep flying until the case is finally settled...
...welcome West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to the U.S. a fortnight ago, the State Department and the CAB had worked up a handsome present for Germany's reborn Lufthansa airline. In air-route negotiations the U.S. gave Lufthansa some prize routes, including a polar route from Germany to San Francisco or Los Angeles, a transatlantic route to Chicago, and one to Boston, New York and Philadelphia, then down to the Caribbean and South America. In return, U.S. air lines got routes to six German cities plus the privilege of picking up passengers to Scandinavia, the Near East, Africa...
...week's end, the U.S. airlines had won their argument in the Senate, retaliation or not. Said one Senator: "I've never seen the U.S. so badly out-traded as in this deal." At the close, Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson announced that the State Department and CAB had agreed to re-examine the deal. The committee was also writing a letter advising the Department to check carefully with U.S. airlines in future deals. No matter which routes Lufthansa eventually gets, it will not be a strong competitor for some time to come. Lufthansa has just started...