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After reading Frank Trippett's anti-air conditioning Essay [Aug. 13], I suggest that he be employed as a correspondent permanently assigned to the equator...
...commissioners' favorite means of transport were "air taxis," or executive jets, costing more than $600,000 last year. Italy's Lorenzo Natali made so many official trips to Rome that he managed to spend 104 days of the year in the Italian capital rather than in the commission's Brussels headquarters...
Chicago Attorney John Kennelly, 62, an air crash expert who has so far filed suits on behalf of the relatives of 22 victims in the Chicago crash, charges that the insurers traditionally stretch out the litigation to hold on for as long as possible to the large sums of money they will inevitably have to pay out. The interest on the money alone is worth millions; Kennelly argues that that interest should be added to the final award...
That will not happen any time soon, and the Chicago crash is shaping up as the most expensive aviation liability case to date. The record for damages is now held by the crash in 1974 of a Turkish Air lines DC-10 near Paris, which has so far cost its insurers some $68 million. But because of inflation and because the passengers were Americans with higher earning potential, the Chicago crash could cost as much as $200 million in claims, which may take several years to settle. Says one Los Angeles attorney: "I call it the megabucks of Chicago...
...Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, massing their biggest rescue operation since World War II, prevented the death toll from being even worse. For 84 straight hours, eight helicopters, six naval vessels, and volunteer commercial ships ranged over 10,000 sq. mi., rescuing 136 sailors. When helicopters spotted survivors in the water, the choppers had to drop and rise like yo-yos, trying to get in synchronization with the giant waves. The boats' tall masts made it impossible to pluck yachtsmen from the decks. "The idea of jumping into those huge seas was appalling," said Frank Worley, a crewman...