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Erik L. Sundquist '63-4, sometime Harvard student and part-time cab driver, has been nominated for the national Taxicab-Driver-of-the-Year award. The Harvard senior's selection is a result of a homicide in which he participated while operating a cab this summer in the Washington, D.C., vicinity...
Sundquist sped to the cab but, in the tension of the moment, could not make either it or its radio work. The murderer returned shortly and asked, while brandishing the murder weapon, to be driven from the scene. Sundquist complied...
...pair were seeing toward Youngstown, Ohio, when Sunquist threw open the driver's door and dived onto the pavement is the fashionable Georgetown section of the Capital. The cab ran on a few feet and then crashed into a parked car. A curious gas station attendant easily disarmed the dased, drunken passenger...
Back & Forth. Among federal regulatory agencies, the CAB seems to have a special aptitude for trouble. In recent months, it created an international furor by its attempt to block scheduled transatlantic fare increases (only to compromise later), enraged both U.S. regional carriers and the British by refusing to let the U.S. carriers buy British short-range jets, and kicked up a ruckus in the airline industry with its highhanded advice to Pan American and W. R. Grace to sell Panagra to Braniff. "I'm doing the job the best way I know how," says Chairman Boyd, "and I expect...
...supreme economic court for the nation's 68 trunk, regional and nonscheduled airlines since its founding by Congress in 1938, the CAB grants routes, sets domestic fares, investigates accidents and pays out subsidies. The board is composed of five members who are appointed by the President for six-year terms at $20,000 a year. U.S. airlines complain that the board members, all without much experience in aviation, rely too much on the advice of the agency's 800-man staff, have no consistent overall policy of their...