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...runaway hit of the show was easily Segal's creation, The Truck. It consisted of the actual cab of a red panel truck that Segal had found in a junkyard. Inside, the odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...
...Abusive in Five Languages," which has already sold some 50,000 copies across the Atlantic, promises to sell thousands more in its forthcoming U.S. edition. With 127 pages of snappish asperities in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, the Insult Dictionary provides useful tips for conversations with surly cab drivers, arrogant bank tellers, clumsy hairdressers, nose-picking grocers and road hogs...
...Smith, 67, who made the line virtually the extension of his own bulky shadow (TIME cover, Nov. 17, 1958). Once the nation's largest airline, American's share of the domestic market has slipped from 22% to 19% in the past five years, partly because the CAB has kept it from expanding its routes at home as much as most other lines. Yet American has kept its profits aloft by paring costs and filling up its planes through promotional campaigns like the youth fare...
...Convair 880s for immediate delivery when General Dynamics repossessed them from troubled Northeast Airlines. The planes helped TWA catch up in the equipment race. Still, TWA continued to lose money, and for a time Tillinghast seriously talked merger with Pan American. Before the deal jelled, the CAB flashed a red light, and as airline business picked up in 1963, the idea died...
That is a lesson the railroads never really applied, and the Civil Aeronautics Board means to see that the airlines do not repeat the error. Though some critics insist that airline fares should be slashed across the board, the CAB so far has settled for approving almost any cut-rate special fare, and the prospects that this policy will change look small. Grumbles Delta Chairman C. E. Woolman: "There's everything but a fare for left-handed people with large heads...