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JAMES N. HUGHES Addison...
Before the wreckage of the fallen planes had stopped smoldering, John Reed, director of the National Transportation Safety Board, led a team of 68 investigators to the scene. Why was the private plane, carrying two Springfield, Mo., businessmen and flown by Veteran Pilot David Addison of Lebanon, Mo., twelve miles off course at the time of the collision? When Addi son reached a point southeast of the Asheville-Hendersonville Airport, he had been instructed to turn north, then report in for final landing instructions...
...Addison acknowledged the message, but never made the northward turn-whether for lack of time, out of misunderstanding of the instruction, or because of a mechanical malfunction may never be known. When the collision occurred, at one minute after noon, the Piedmont Airlines plane, which had just left the airport, was climbing right on course...
Despite vigorous denials by the Kennedy family, medical detectives have long suspected that John F. Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease, a gradual atrophy of the adrenal glands that in its milder stages can be contained by cortisone (which Kennedy took), but in more advanced cases can result in low resistance to infection, chronic backache and kidney failure. Now a University of Kansas pathologist, Dr. John Nichols, 46, has concluded in the A.M.A. Journal that Kennedy did have it, that an infection stemming from it almost killed him after his spinal operation in 1954. Nichols bases his conclusion...
...rangy athletic Bartlett Hayes, Jr., 62, "the student learns to adapt and meet the unexpected. The quarterback learns this on the football field; the student can learn it in the gallery." As an art teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover, since 1933, and head of the prep school's Addison Gallery of American Art since 1940, Bart Hayes has taught two generations of Andover boys how to adapt, and in the process set nationwide precedents in art instruction and appreciation. Says Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas P. F. Hoving, who attended Andover's archrival Exeter: "Bart Hayes is the best...