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...that crashed mysteriously in North Carolina last January, killing all 34 on board, was destroyed by a bomb that went off near the seat of Julian Frank, a financially troubled Manhattan lawyer who had just taken out about $1,000,000 in insurance. But the board did not fix responsibility on Frank, and the issue is still to be determined by the FBI. In U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., the insurance companies are arguing that, since Frank committed suicide, they are absolved from having to pay on his policies. Frank's widow contends that her husband...
...instructors were still droning through confusing, poorly illustrated lectures more likely to put students to sleep than turn them into well-trained technicians. Says Polich: "In the old days we used to hand the student 62 Ibs. of manuals and say, 'I'm gonna learn you to fix this.' " A reserve officer in the engineers, who saw action at Cassino (Bronze Star for clearing minefields) and decided to make soldiering a career, Polich abruptly discarded the old methods and set out to bring the twelve-week school up to date...
...dust-up and Nikita Khrushchev's party-line attack on Eisenhower at the summit, it was-as Moscow and Peking intended it to be-a blow to the U.S. image. Allies were apprehensive because the U.S. had allowed itself to get in such a fix. Peking and Moscow were jubilant; one called the President "a rat," the other called him "a snake...
...Club, and the Lords and Ladies Dance Club, not to mention the proliferating list of adult-education courses that keep the public school lights glowing into the night. "We have a wonderful adult-education program," says Suburbanite (Levittown, L.I.) Muriel Kane (two children), "where women can learn how to fix their own plumbing and everything." Fighting in the Thickets. Since Suburbia was conceived for children (and vice versa), the Suburban housewife is the chief jungle fighter for school expansion and reform. Beyond that the path leads easily to the thickets of local politics. Only recently, after the Montgomery County manager...
...Eastern Air Lines pilot called in one day last week to say that the plumbing in his house was leaking and he had to stay home to fix it. Another rang up to say that his garage door was jammed and he could not get to work. Yet another said he had a backache. Whatever their expressed reasons for not going to work, Eastern Air Lines pilots crippled the nation's third largest airline last week...