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Some top airmen contend that they could trim fares if Browne's CAB did not overburden them with enforced competition. As Browne conceded, "there has been criticism from some that the CAB is still grinding out route awards every Friday afternoon." But most of those are made on the basis of cases started long ago, when the economy-and traffic-was riding high. Others have been made because of congressional or White House intervention over the objections of the CAB. A classic case was the 1956 award of a New York-Miami route to Northeast Airlines, pushed through first...
...suspect in the robbery, Robert Valeri, 21, identified through bank pictures, was arrested as he stepped from a cab, in front of his Somerville home Wednesday night. Paroled last June from Walpole State Prison after serving two years for car theft and attempted burglary,Valeri was held for questioning...
Mailer in middle age continued to carry himself like a retired welterweight who might be thinking of a comeback, though he now pushed a bank clerk's belly. Age had performed interesting surgery on his face: cast him as a cab-driver, Chicago alderman, Irish cop, dart-champion in a workingman's pub, sly old convict; his face, like that of the late Everett Dirksen, told something of where he had been. Styron's face was a gentle mystery. Smooth for its forty-five years, it had of late come to look maybe a touch soft-trough so unblemished...
...comprehend. It is openly empathetic with the students, but it gives them no voice except to shout slogans. Its sound track puts down "dinky little secretaries" who will not take a day off to protest the war. It milks easy laughs from those classic villains, the know-nothing cab driver and the harried postman. To be sure, the film eventually recognizes its own faults. "We can't reach the working people," concludes one of the crew. But acknowledging blindness does not grant vision; diagnosis is no cure. Alien to the laborers it cannot hope to convince, preacher...
Last year, there was only one man in this University who could walk into a crowd of demonstrators and tell a State Department official, "On the authority of the President of this University, I command you to get out of that cab...