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...should have aborted, it looked to the pilot as if such action would almost certainly lead to a crackup. Making his decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot for rule-book infringement. Though A.L.P.A. Boss Sayen hammered away at FAA's rigid judgment, Quesada had the last word: investigation showed that the pilot had failed to safety-catch a fuel-flow lever; it had slipped out of position to cut off the fuel...
...northern France's cathedral city of Amiens one afternoon last week, 35,000 French farmers raged through the heart of town, smashing windows and stoning cops in a riot that left 70 farmers and 50 police injured. By general agreement, France's farmers had legitimate cause for complaint: although they make up 25% of the population, they get only 10% of the national income.* De Gaulle's abolition of a parity index hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood...
...major U.S. universities, from New Jersey's Rutgers to the University of Hawaii, students are protesting compulsory membership in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Pacifist groups sometimes exploit the protest, as they did in the pre-World War II days; but the real complaint is the U.S. Army's archaic training course on campus. While wags deride the jazzy new forest-green uniform ("Robin Hood's Men"), those who wear it resent long hours of playing doughboy with World War I machine guns. Last week dissidents were stirring up many a state university campus. Samples...
...Northern Hemisphere this week, with winter's assault of colds and influenza near its seasonal peak, millions of sniffling, hacking customers went to the corner drugstore to shop for what they hoped would be a cure, or at least a palliative, for their suffering. Whether they called their complaint a cold or catarrh, die Grippe- or flu, the answer was the same: for none of these illnesses caused by viruses does medicine have a cure. The best that any victim can expect is the relief of some immediate symptoms and unimpeded recovery from the original viral infection before...
...heart of Justice's complaint was that Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and its affiliated companies had combined to boost prices shortly after Suez. Humble Oil & Refining Co., 88% owned by Jersey Standard, started the ball rolling, and most of the industry had quickly fallen into line...