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...this statistic, of course, is why Washington had to wait so long for home rule in the first place. A white cab driver expressed the feelings of many this summer when he said, "I can't see out Nation's capital being controlled by colored people." This opinion explains the strong Southern opposition to the home rule bill. This feeling, in a rather irrational form, underlies the compromise provision that left to the President ultimate control of the Metropolitan Police...
...boss Bert Powers: "Somebody has convinced the membership that a union is like a tollgate and that all it does is collect dues. There isn't the feeling there used to be for the whole labor movement. Our own printers aren't interested in how the cab Drivers are being organized. A picket line is an annoyance...
...dead at week's end, nearly 600 injured, 1,700 arrested, property damage well over $100 million. Minute by minute, police radios logged a Wellsian cata logue of carnage: "Manchester and Broadway, a mob of 1,000 . . . Shots at Avalon and Imperial . . . Vernon and Central, looting . . . Yellow cab over turned . . . Man pulled from car on Imperial Highway . . . 88th and Broad way, gun battle . . . Officer in trouble." The riot was the worst in the city's history, one of the worst ever in the U.S. To help quell it, California's Gov ernor Pat Brown broke...
...After reading your thorough report on Flight 901A [July 30], I feel compelled as a professional pilot to make these comments: The CAB concedes that the compass may have been 15° off, that the altimeter may have been off, and that someone on the ground falsified a weather report. Yet the board concludes that Cap tain Norris and his passengers are dead because of his error! Captain Norris' only errors seem to have been believing that a federally licensed mechanic would fix a compass and/or an altimeter, that a person on the ground would tell him the truth...
...Even the industry's weakest member got a lift last week, when control of money-losing Northeast Airlines was sold by Howard Hughes's trustee to Miami Beach's Storer Broadcasting Co.; Storer will provide fresh funds, but Northeast's future depends on a pending CAB decision as to whether it can continue to fly the New York-Miami...