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...Braniff Airways plane virtually disintegrated, turning the sky fiery red and raining bodies and debris on isolated brush country 68 miles southeast of here...
...Line Pilots Association, led by President Clarence Sayen, 39, also talked tough. Sayen, once a professional pilot for Braniff, blasted American Airlines as having the "worst goddamned labor relations of practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering...
...Braniff International Airways is already on a subsidy of $700,000 a year...
...been enlivened by barbecues, hillbilly bands and beauty queens. "Seats are bought on the New York Stock Exchange." Yarborough told a statewide television audience. "Now we see an effort to buy one of Texas' seats in the Senate." Noting that Blakley is the largest single stockholder of Braniff Airways, Yarborough told Texas peanut growers: "He has stated that he is opposed to federal subsidies for farmers- is he opposed to a subsidy for Braniff Airways...
...Braniff has had no subsidies since July 10, 1957, when subsidies on its international routes were terminated...