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After the first frantic days, matters began to improve; the mammoth jam on the island's edge was eased as drivers learned to give the whole area a wide berth during critical hours. And at the better shops, plenty of wealthy clients were still showing up by cab (sniffed Gucci's sales manager: "A woman who wants a Gucci bag is not going to settle for something at her neighborhood store."). But by then, the uproar from the small shopkeepers was too loud to go unnoticed at city hall. Caving in, Traffic Commissioner Pala first reopened almost half...
...Salt Lake City wreck, most of the 43 victims were burned to death. Thus, the CAB recommended that the 727's fuel lines, which run through the craft's belly to the three rear-mounted engines, be relocated to withstand the shock of a crash landing. In, both cases, CAB investigators found evidence that synthetic cabin material such as soundproofing, when exposed to fire and soaked by jet kerosene fuel or hydraulic fluid, may exude deadly gases; survivors of the Salt Lake City crash reported that fumes "seared and burned" their lungs. As a result, the CAB called...
...experts are also considering recommending that airline personnel be required to explain before takeoff the operation of emergency exits (window exits swing inward). Another conclusion from the Salt Lake tragedy, in which many passengers were trapped in the aisles, is that airliners should have more and bigger exits. The CAB may even recommend that an entire section of an airliner's fuselage be designed so that it can swing open as an escape hatch...
...Sorensen's Kennedy. But for every excellent Kennedy book, there were at least seven sloppily sentimental ones, and the surfeit went so far that Monocle magazine's Victor Navasky struck home with his satirical suggestion for a brand-new title: "Taxi to Greatness, the story of the cab driver who drove young John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier to the movies on their first date...
...William Casey Marland, 47, West Virginia's drinking, brawling young Democratic Governor from 1953 to 1957, whose antics split the party and led to his defeat in two subsequent bids for a Senate seat, after which he dropped out of sight, suddenly reappeared last March as a Chicago cab driver and explained that he was attempting to "begin from the beginning" after years of alcoholism; of cancer of the pancreas, shortly after accepting a comeback position as administrative assistant to West Virginia Manufacturer (National Mattress Co.) James F. Edwards; in Barrington...