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When the blue-yonder airmen first learned that they were to be grounded into train duty, the inevitable cry was, "It's a helluva way to run an air force."
Four weeks before the Los Angeles convention, the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination seemed to go underground as the contenders, their aides and strategists were busier than an ant colony in their quests for delegates and deals. TIME correspondents, checking the politicians and delegates across the nation, found Jack...
Emergency Regulation. To avert more cancellations, Eastern went to a federal court in Miami, got a temporary restraining order requiring Eastern pilots to give the forward observer's seat to FAA inspectors. Quesada, stung by what he termed A.L.P.A.'s "arrogant defiance of the Government," rushed through an...
Every Trick in the Book. One of nine children born to a Panamanian bus driver, Ycaza learned to ride ponies as a six-year-old, trained as a jockey in Panama and Mexico. Says his agent: "They're not strict down there. Everybody rides rough." In the U.S., Ycaza...
A reporter asked if this was not ground enough to seek impeachment of President Eisenhower. Symington flushed, paused and replied in a low voice: "That would be unthinkable." But the great defense debate, partly sparked by politics, partly set in motion by the Administration's failures to explain itself...