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Truckdriver Poe, his left leg caught in the cab, cried to rescuers: "Don't let me die this way! Thank God you're here! Oh my God! Thank God you're here! Help me! Save me!" With crowbars and wrenches, emergency crews got Poe free, sent him on to a hospital with four badly burned coeds. The charred bodies of Professor Sixta and nine girls were sent to the morgue...
...performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector: "The agencies are long on judicial form and short on judicial substance." He advised transferring the CAB's policy-making functions to an executive department and setting up a court of experts...
...COMMUTER FARES will be started by Allegheny Airlines between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh at reduced rates if CAB approves. Passengers will not be permitted to make reservations, must carry own baggage but will pay only $13 v. present $20.30 one-way fare. Allegheny also plans to offer ten-ticket books at 15% discount...
DISPUTED RULING by CAB allows financial Wheeler-Dealer Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to control West-Coast-based, non-sked Transocean Air Lines while it already controls Northeast Airlines. In a 4-1 opinion, CAB declared Odium violated Sherman Antitrust Act, but said illegal action was "outweighed by public interest...
...Miglia road race in 1957. Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's bustling Fifth Avenue last week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries, she had left a Manhattan hospital, counted herself "lucky to be alive...