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...crashes, all of them during the final landing approach. But last week, reporting on one of the four disasters-an American Airlines 727 crash in Cincinnati that took 58 lives-the Civil Aeronautics Board blamed the accident on pilot error and cleared the aircraft altogether. The 727, said the CAB, has "no design deficiencies or unsatisfactory operating characteristics...
...CAB noted that the 727 is built to get in and out of airports quickly, therefore has steep climb and descent rates. In the Cincinnati crash, the pilot simply descended too fast and probably did not pay enough attention to his altimeter. The CAB had already made a similar finding in a United Air Lines crash in Salt Lake City. There have been no rulings yet on the two other 727 crashes, one outside Tokyo and the other near Chicago...
...help Northeast, the Civil Aeronautics Board ten years ago added the lucrative New York-Miami run to its New England routes. Seven years later, anxious to help National and Eastern and assuming that there was no longer much hope for Northeast, the CAB took back the route that was providing Northeast with two-thirds of its income...
...squanders her family's meager monthly handouts on dining at a cafe or on rides in a hansom cab. After befriending an agreeable demi-prostitute and paving the primrose path for her grandson, she develops a haphazard taste for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes. She eventually sells off her furniture, buys a jaunty little car, and finances a Communist cobbler who yearns to open a self-service shoe store. Before death overtakes her, the cheeky septuagenarian has lived two lives-one being the long years of servitude as daughter, wife and mother, the other made...
...wives cooked on wood stoves, hauled water from the well and did their evening chores by the flickering light of a coal-oil lamp. Now farm families are moving into town, and the old-fashioned threshing gangs have given way to the farmer who sits in the air-conditioned cab of a $ 15,000 combine; he can now harvest a 1,000-acre crop with the help of a single hired hand. The farm-equip ment industry is, not surprisingly, in clover. Near Kamsack, Sask., Farmer Paul Strilaiff farms the homestead where his Russian immigrant parents settled at the turn...