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There has rarely been any problem about betting a buck or buying a babe in Newport, Ky., a red-brick town just a nine-minute, $1.35 cab ride across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. The town's traditions trace back to the female followers who camped around the local U.S. Army barracks in the 19th century. Since then, Newport has developed such a gaudy brand of gambling and prostitution that it stands today as one of the nation's most blatant sin centers...
...With Drive. Blake's drive to go all the way for church union is typical of him; one of his older brother's earliest recollections is of Gene as a five-year-old, charging into a horse-drawn cab so hard that he went right on through and out the other side. But Gene Blake as a 54-year-old charges with his head up. He is a savvy salesman-executive who remembers first names, keeps up his contacts, runs two offices of his church (in Philadelphia and Manhattan) and gets around...
...Mistake. At first the CAB men checked out the mechanical variables. They pored into the history of the 15-year-old plane, found it sound. They recovered its engines and much of its navigational gear, gave them a clean bill. They ran 25 hours of test flights and landings in the Charlottesville area, scrutinizing the ground control stations. Finally they decided that mechanical failure had not caused the crash...
After a painstaking search, the CAB located several witnesses who had heard the plane. Their accounts, plus the flight log and messages from plane to ground, pointed to one conclusion: Captain Lavrinc had been flying off course for 30 minutes, or since the time he had cruised over the "Casanova" control point. There he was scheduled to make a 20° left turn. Instead he continued on a death course. From then on, the investigation centered on Pilot George Lavrinc, 32, and his private life...
...CAB investigators found no residues of the tranquilizers in Lavrinc's body. But they said that any crew member who needs tranquilizers should be grounded. "Captain Lavrinc," said the CAB, "was so heavily burdened with mental and emotional problems that he should have been relieved of the strain of flight duty while undergoing treatment for his condition." For the first time in aviation history, an official CAB report said of a crash: "A contributing factor to the accident may have been preoccupation of the captain resulting from mental stress...