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...them as cliché-ridden as any Mirror Sunday feature. But the composition was stuffed with enough acoustical effects to keep any Grofé fan awake and happy: a clanging cable-car bell, a foghorn, Chinese gongs and temple blocks, the clippity-clop rhythms of a hansom cab. The most rousing movement was the last, which was chiefly devoted to the great earthquake (Grofé's simulated explosions had several musicians leaping in terror from their seats). The piece ended with a fanfare based on Hail to California!, an old University of California song...
...CAB & the Management. CAB gave Capital 45 days to file a reply. From the sound of things at Capital's annual meeting last week, the answer is likely to be a familiar one: to blame CAB for its troubles, demand a subsidy to stay in business. Said President David H. Baker to 200 worried stockholders: "Capital's route system is a creature of CAB." And he went on to complain about Capital's unprofitable short-haul runs (average length: 255 miles), its inability to boost fares or to drop marginal stops. Added Capital's biggest stockholder...
...itself had fought its way into every city on its route-and therein lies the airline's major problem: its own management. By buying the wrong equipment, pushing its debt too high, expanding without careful study, Capital has been in competitive trouble for years and usually looked to CAB for help. The last time was in 1958, when CAB bailed out Capital by giving the line access to the lucrative Florida market, with a run from Buffalo. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, to Jacksonville and beyond. Object of the move: to keep Capital off subsidy for all time. Yet the line could...
...Public Interest? This week Capital will file a formal petition arguing that CAB has a mandate under law to hold the airline together for a "useful purpose in the public interest and necessity,'' i.e., to give it another subsidy. Outside of bankruptcy, one obvious possibility is merger with other airlines. Both Delta and Northwest could use sections of Capital's routes, but the big carriers are sitting it out until Capital clears up its lawsuit with Planemaker Vickers and settles its management troubles. Among other things, Stockholder Murchison has been trying to oust Capital's Chairman...
...placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part of his finger had arrived back inside, tried to re-enter Candlestick by telling a gateman his story. The reply: "That's the best yarn I've heard today." Turned away, Belloc got in a cab. Meanwhile, the clinic realized that it had no one to put the finger on. The clinic dispatched a motorcycle patrolman, with finger in Dixie cup, after Belloc's cab. Finger retrieved, Belloc went to a hospital, got the finger sewed back on, returned to Candlestick Park to watch...