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...months there had been rumors in the aviation industry that Transport Specialist Boyd, 42, highly regarded for his outstanding performance at CAB?which he turned from a so-so agency into one of the best-run in Washington ?was going to be moved up. A Florida-born lawyer who logged more than 3,000 hours piloting troop carriers and combat planes in World War II, Boyd was first named to the CAB in 1959 by President Eisenhower. Two years later John Kennedy elevated him to chairman, a job to which he had been reappointed each year since...
...Charles S. Murphy, 55, Under Secretary of Agriculture, will replace Boyd as CAB chairman, though he has virtually no background in the field. A lawyer from North Carolina, Murphy has served in Government for 28 years in a wide range of jobs, notably as President Truman's special counsel from 1950 to 1953. During the Senate investigation of the financial shenanigans of Convicted Swindler Billie Sol Estes, Democrat Murphy, then Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman's right-hand man, was roundly criticized by Republicans for showing favoritism to Estes, but he emerged from the scandal unscathed after Freeman vouched...
...peddi-cab, a cross between a rickshaw and a tricycle provides another major form of transportation...
...Negro chauffeur drove Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 81, through placid residential Washington, he nearly collided with a taxi, whose white Southern driver jumped out, yelling: "You black s.o.b., what do you think you're doing?" At which Teddy Roosevelt's daughter rolled down her window, fastened the cab driver with a cool blue glare, and demanded: "You white s.o.b., what do you think you're doing...
...members. But those not legally responsible become legally liable if they volunteer. Indeed, the rescuer who accidentally causes injury may be sued for negligence or even prosecuted for assault; if he is injured himself, he has little recourse. U.S. life abounds with sobering instances. In Chicago in 1961, Negro Cab Driver Lawrence Boyd tried to stop three Negro muggers from robbing two white youths. Boyd was shot twice, paralyzed in one arm, lost his job, and is now $9,000 in debt. In Upper Darby, Pa., last fall, George Senn fired a shotgun in the air to prevent 20 thugs...