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During a White House tea for top Government employees' wives one afternoon last week, Mrs. Alan Boyd, wife of the Civil Aeronautics Board chairman, slipped away to the Lincoln bedroom to watch the televised presidential press conference that was going on downstairs in the East Room. There on the screen was Lyndon Johnson, playing his much-relished role of master of ceremonies. He was introducing, one by one, somewhat in the manner of Ed Sullivan, eight new Administration appointees. Suddenly Mrs. Boyd gasped. There, smiling out at the camera, was the ruggedly handsome face of her husband. "To tell...
...husband's new job, she soon found out, was Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation. But such is the secrecy with which Lyndon Johnson surrounds his appointments these days that even Boyd was in the dark about just what his new job would be until the press conference began...
...months there had been rumors in the aviation industry that Transport Specialist Boyd, 42, highly regarded for his outstanding performance at CAB?which he turned from a so-so agency into one of the best-run in Washington ?was going to be moved up. A Florida-born lawyer who logged more than 3,000 hours piloting troop carriers and combat planes in World War II, Boyd was first named to the CAB in 1959 by President Eisenhower. Two years later John Kennedy elevated him to chairman, a job to which he had been reappointed each year since...
...legally responsible become legally liable if they volunteer. Indeed, the rescuer who accidentally causes injury may be sued for negligence or even prosecuted for assault; if he is injured himself, he has little recourse. U.S. life abounds with sobering instances. In Chicago in 1961, Negro Cab Driver Lawrence Boyd tried to stop three Negro muggers from robbing two white youths. Boyd was shot twice, paralyzed in one arm, lost his job, and is now $9,000 in debt. In Upper Darby, Pa., last fall, George Senn fired a shotgun in the air to prevent 20 thugs from attacking two girls...
Wrestling at 115, Kopecki also reached the finals, downing the first four men to face him: Billy Rand of Lehigh 3-2, Tom Russell of Albany State 11-3, Tom Boyd of Bloomsberg State 6-5, and Bill Matias of Syracuse 5-0 in overtime. In the finals Kopecki was defeated by Bob McGann of Oswego State Teachers' College...