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...pompon-topped shakos, blue tunics, red-striped trousers-lined the walls as outgoing President Edelmiro Farrell tearfully handed Perón the mace and threw the colors of office across his shoulders. Then the President, who had seldom ruled, slipped quietly out to the street, hailed a passing cab and went home...
When nonscheduled airlines began to mushroom all over the U.S., airmen predicted that most of the new companies would stay in business only until the Civil Aeronautics Board wielded its regulatory ax (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week the ax fell. Before CAB stops swinging, 95% of the nonscheduled fliers may be grounded...
Airlines a nonstop Miami to Puerto Rico route. The President had ordered the Los Angeles-Mexico City route taken away from Pan Am and given to Western Airlines. A badly flustered CAB issued certificates to both Pan Am and Western. Best break for Pan Am was that it got something it has long wanted, a nonstop route from New York to Puerto Rico...
...President had acted no one seemed to know, least of all CAB. Best guess seemed to be that it was the work of brasshats who have often been miffed by Pan Am's way of doing business. If so, their plan may yet backfire. As long as so many domestic lines are to compete with Pan Am abroad, CAB will be hard put to it to find logical reasons why Pan Am should not compete with them at home, as it wants...
...CAB gave Braniff Airways a route from Mexico City down the west coast of South America, then across to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. It gave Colonial Airlines permission to fly from Washington and New York to Bermuda-much to the surprise of Colonial, which had applied only for a route from New York. Again on presidential orders, CAB gave Eastern