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...CAB is a small, independent agency created by Congress and charged, among other things, with watching over air safety. It has no connection with the powerful Federal Aviation Agency, which runs the airways and must, in fact, answer for its performance to CAB. Every accident of an aircraft weighing more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Crash Detectives | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...start on the ten-hour, 365-mile run to New Orleans. At 2:45 they were barreling along Alabama Highway 5 when a cream-colored car passed them, raced on to a junction, turned and sped back. From the car a shotgun was fired point-blank at the cab of the lead truck, critically wounding Driver Charles Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Bloody Strike | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...major airlines recently reached agreement on a new policy: in the future, no-shows who do not cancel their reservations before flight time will not be refunded the full price of their ticket-the penalty will be about 50% of the fare up to a maximum of $50. If CAB approves, the new rule will go into effect March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: He Who Got Bumped | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...Eastern tieup with any big airline would very likely win the blessing of CAB's merger-promoting Chairman Alan Boyd. Under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, CAB approval gives an airline freedom from antitrust prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Merger in the Air | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

Often he rode incognito in taxicabs just to tune in on hackies' grumbles. "When the gripes are scattered around," he says, "things are going O.K.; it's when the cab drivers all complain about the same thing that you know something is wrong." He clocked 30,000 miles a year in his car, was on hand at every four-or-more-alarm fire in the city to quarterback traffic control ("anything that obstructs traffic is our concern"). He installed an elaborate electronic control system, which enabled him to play the city's traffic lights like a color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Green Light for New York? | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

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