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...real people who appeared on TV last week were more improbable, in spots, than anything in the fictional dramas. Frank Sinatra's new Coldwater Canyon, Calif, home was invaded by an army of Ed Murrow's electronic gremlins only two hours after Frankie had moved in. Kicking off his fourth season on Person to Person (CBS), Murrow positioned his cameras in every cranny of Sinatra's two-bedroom Japanese house, with its elaborate hi-fi gadgets, Bing Crosby recordings, a TV set that swings out of its niche to front any chair in the room...
...nation's crowded airways, 254 commercial and private planes collided in flight between 1948 and 1955, and there is an average of four near misses a day. After last June's collision of two commercial aircraft over the Grand Canyon took 128 lives (TIME, July 9), the search for a warning device to prevent such disasters in the future became a major concern of U.S. airlines. Last week the airlines finally thought they had found what they wanted. The Air Transport Association approved a collision alarm system blueprinted by Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a company...
Died. Charles Jules Lowen Jr., 41, U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administrator, who fought since his appointment last December for an improved air-traffic control system, saw his arguments horribly strengthened when 128 persons died in the crash of two airliners over the Grand Canyon (TIME, July 9); of cancer, one day after the CAA announced a reorganization designed to speed establishment of a $246 million flight control network; in Denver...
...Many thanks for your omission of that highly overrated hole in the ground, the "Grand" Canyon, from your July 23 spread on National Parks...
When the House Government Operations Subcommittee, stirred to action by last month's disastrous mid-air collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon, looked into the whole question of aviation safety, it found that the U.S. was simply not prepared to handle the traffic jam in its skies. Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat...