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...Constellations, sniffs that American's schedules are just paper performance. Eastbound, says T.W.A., the new planes are late 40% of the time. Westbound, the DC-7s do even worse, take up to twelve hours, because of headwinds. Temporarily, American has been getting exemptions from the CAA rule against flight crews staying on the job for longer than eight hours at a stretch. But last week CAA itself was checking arrival times to see if the schedules are realistic...
...matter which way he turned last week, Arthur Godfrey appeared to be in trouble. The Civil Aeronautics Board had given him ten days to answer the charges of careless flying made against him by the CAA. If Godfrey admitted thai: he had deliberately buzzed the control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, he was almost certain to be disciplined (by reprimand, fine, suspension or revocation of his private pilot's license). If. on the other hand, he could come up with no better excuse than the one he had used in his broadcast-that his twin-engined...
...touch Godfrey," and begged his public to remember that Godfrey "rates the patience of the audience because any doctor will tell you that no man is emotionally stable until a year after an operation such as the one Arthur went through." Colonel Ora Young, regional administrator of the CAA, who received the protest from Glass, promised reporters that he would do his duty, that he had written Godfrey and was patiently awaiting an answer, but that he did not think anyone -"especially a man of Mr. Godfrey's standing"-would deliberately fly a plane close to a control tower...
Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo, CAA endorsed, isn't worried about the "threat" to PR. "I don't think PR makes that much difference to Cambridge," he opines. "Under a plurality system I'll get my bulk vote and combine with other strong candidates and we'll have what constitutes a machine. If that's what the voters want--hooray...
Retired Judge Swan and two other distinguished alumni of CAA-2, Learned and Augustus Hand, first heard officially about Danaher's prospects from FBI agents who were checking Danaher's record. The three judges promptly rendered their opinion by joining 20 other leading New York, Connecticut and Vermont lawyers and ex-judges in a "memorandum" to Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Its thinly veiled message: an endorsement of Hincks and a veto for Danaher. Brownell sent back a noncommittal thanks for a "thoughtful analysis of the problem...