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...after editorial and production jobs on industrial trade magazines. By then her interests had veered from crime to finance, and she was hired as a researcher for the Business section. Says she: "I remember my first story conference all too vividly. Everybody spoke in code: '. . . The CAB is going to do this . . . T.W.A. and Pan Am are going to do that . . . The SEC is due to announce . . . The SCOTUS decision is expected . . .' Everything was initials. I didn't understand a word they were saying...
...clear the road; there will be half an hour's delay. Finally we are allowed to move ahead again, and we meet the tanks heading back to the nearby fort, like fire trucks ready for the next alarm. Before us in the highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal, its tires still burning. Near by, with automatic rifles perched on the green mounds that separate the paddies, crouch Vietnamese guardsmen, looking out across the flat fields. Several miles away, a black plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make...
...anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts on that memorable last night in the White House . . . During the cab ride [to a restaurant], I suggested a private screening of ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He shook his head, glanced at Mrs. Truman's new hairdo, and said: 'Real gentlemen prefer grey hair...
MERGER of Eastern Air Lines and Colonial Airlines was vetoed this week by President Eisenhower, even though the Civil Aeronautics Board approved the deal, Ike's reason: Eastern had violated CAB regulations by buying control of Colonial before the board approved the merger...
...private pilot's license). If. on the other hand, he could come up with no better excuse than the one he had used in his broadcast-that his twin-engined DC-3 was blown completely off its course by a 30-m.p.h. cross wind - he could scarcely expect CAB to regard him as a skilled pilot. Godfrey was further embarrassed by the fact that the CAA had discovered that he was flying without valid CAA medical clearance (holders of privat: licenses are required to pass a physical examination every two years...