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Pete Quesada, FAA administrator, may be too independent to suit airline and union brass. But back in 1937 Captain Pete and his dachshund "Otto" were GI favorites at Fort Leavenworth. Of the 45 Army fliers there, Pete and ten others later became generals. EARL E. WILLIAMS North Canton, Ohio...
...Laws. In getting Tony, Princess Margaret will also inherit a bewildering set of in-laws: his mother Anne is now an Irish countess by her marriage to the sixth Earl of Rosse, vice chancellor of Dublin's Trinity College. His father, a Queen's Counsel, after the divorce from Tony's mother married Actress Carol Coombe, and only a few weeks ago took his third wife: a former airline stewardess, Jenifer Unite, who is a year older than her royal daughter...
...chilly hills of Scotland. A fire broke out in an uninhabited wing, was extinguished by the local fire department before it engulfed the cozy apartments where Queen Elizabeth once romped, Princess Margaret was born, and the Queen Mother's family have lived for some 600 years. The Earl of Strathmore, the castle's present guardian, tried to brave the flames to rescue his Labrador puppy, then thought better...
Market Survey. In Detroit, sentenced to 30 days in jail for stealing a $5 rock-'n'-roll disk from a record shop, Earl Pearson explained: "I lifted a classical record from that same shop a couple of days ago. But I couldn't sell it on Skid Row. Everybody wanted rock 'n' roll...
...most efficient machine to handle the enormous complexities of mass production, mass markets and mass financing. In the process, the corporation has become a political and social system as well as an economic one-a state within a state. "Imperial decisions are ratified in this regal atmosphere," says Earl Latham, professor of political science at Amherst College, "decisions to divide up the U.S., develop Venezuela, support an Arab oligarchy, lengthen cars so that they fit nobody's garage, approve treaties with other satrapies of economic power and influence...