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From the moment President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1961, Florida Democrat Alan S. Boyd, 40, made it plain that he was anxious to do something about the plight of the nation's airlines. Plagued by skyrocketing costs and too many empty seats, the country's trunk lines dropped over $35 million last year. Boyd's proposed cure: more mergers to create stronger companies. Said he: "It takes a big company to sustain the burden of keeping pace, when aircraft cost $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 apiece...
Airline bosses were quick to take Boyd at his word ; early this year faltering Eastern Air Lines, which is the nation's third biggest trunk carrier, looked over its $9,600,000 losses for 1961 and decided that the best remedy lay in a merger with second-ranking American Airlines, which earned a tidy $7,280,000 last year. Predictably, the proposal evoked a noisy chorus of opposition from rival airlines, the airline unions and the Justice Department's trustbusters. Last week came the most ominous protest yet: in a 119-page report, CAB Examiner Ralph L. Wiser...
...wrong is to call a churchman "reverend" -which is an adjective rather than a noun, and is likely to bring a shudder from even the kindliest clergyman when used as a title in direct address. "Calling a minister 'reverend,'" says the Right Rev. John Boyd Bentley of the Protestant Episcopal National Council, "is like meeting Churchill and saying, 'Good morning, honorable.' " The plain-talking Presbyterians of New Mexico's Rio Grande Presbytery (33 congregations from Tucumcari to Las Cruces) recently resolved "that all members, friends and enemies of the Presbytery of the Rio Grande...
...years, Britain wanted to race again-and the sooner the better. To the New York Yacht Club went a formal challenge from London's Royal Thames Yacht Club proposing a race next summer. One new British 12-meter yacht was already abuilding in Scotland (her designer: David Boyd, who also designed the ill-starred Sceptre, which lost four straight to the U.S. in 1958). A second boat was on the drawing boards, and a third might be built. The British proposed to hold their own elimination trials, then take on the U.S. defender. After a full summer of practice...
...accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...