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...about airline practices, American Airlines and United recently filed plans with the Civil Aeronautics Board to scrap the 40-lb. baggage weight limit (the big new jets make the limit practically academic) and substitute a piece limit regardless of weight; last week TWA joined the trend by asking the CAB to approve its own more liberal system. In addition to the rapid growth of in-flight entertainment and the prevalence of "gourmet" meals on longer flights, the lines are going out of their way to make the cabin more like home. Western provides portable typewriters and dictating machines...
Movies are in the air to stay. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board re jected a proposal by the International Air Transport Association to ban mov ies on all international flights. I.A.T.A.'s proposed ban was not in the public in terest, said the CAB; not only that, but it might subject participating U.S. air lines to antitrust action by the Justice Department, which last month angrily criticized I.A.T.A. for its "methodical elimination of all forms of competition in international air travel...
...CAB thus shot down efforts by foreign carriers to get rid of in-flight films, which TWA pioneered in 1961 As a result, TWA, plus Pakistan Inter national and Philippine airlines, which have also inaugurated movies, will keep the screens lit. A few other foreign lines may also introduce flicks, and Pan American has announced that it will equip its international flights with movies "as speedily as possible" to compete with...
...jaunts to Europe and the Caribbean but denying any knowledge of Sam's gangland affairs. And she kept right on chattering to reporters saying that "my family is heartbroken," and indicating that Sam is still her man. At last Lawyer Edward Bennet Williams thrust her firmly into a cab with a crisp "Phyllis, for God's sake, let me do the talking...
...three a day. He was a braggart, a plagiarist, a liar and a bully. He threw coffee in Publisher Horace Liveright's face and once challenged Sinclair Lewis to a duel. Maudlin music made him teary and flattery made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits. He was a political idiot who backed the Nazis and the Communists at the same time. Furtive and suspicious, he suffered psychotic episodes and occasionally flirted with suicide. He tried heroin and hashish. For years, he once confessed, he was a compulsive...