Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Next came Nixon's own home territory, Los Angeles. Welcomed at the airport by 5,000 cheering people and one baby elephant, Nixon led a motorcade to his alma mater, Quaker-run Whittier College, found the football field jammed with 15,000 greeters. Next morning, on a chartered prop plane (to save the G.O.P. National Committee $11,000 more than a jet charter would have cost), Dick and Pat hurried on to Hawaii, spent two days there island hopping. Nixon campaigned as if he expected Hawaii's three electoral votes to decide the outcome in November...
...Words. Against so clear a danger to the security of the hemisphere from Cuba-based and Communist-in spired infiltration, the U.S. and other Latin American states must take steps. But what steps? Cancellation of Cuba's sugar quota was probably a violation of the article in the charter of the Organization of American States that bars economic intervention; it may also prove ineffectual. Russia has promised to purchase the entire quota cut at only $24 million less than the artificially high price the U.S. used to pay. Communist China has promised to buy 500,000 tons more...
Power & Light. In the face of Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba's wild shouts for help from Peking and Moscow, Hammarskjold quietly took charge. He did not wait for any nation to ask for a meeting of the Security Council; instead, using his authority under the charter's Article 99 for the first time, he called the Security Council into emergency session on his own motion. Obviously, if the great powers were allowed to send troops to the Congo, the cold war would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister...
...will not permit the establishment of a regime dominated by international Communism in the Western Hemisphere." Ike's warning was unilateral, but as the State Department pointed out last week, the Monroe Doctrine has been built into joint policy by the nations of the Americas, in the OAS charter and the Rio Treaty...
Beginning during the Korean war, when certificated airlines operating in the Pacific did not have the capacity to meet the tremendous increase in military airlift requirements, CAB granted special rate and other economic exemptions to lines flying charter contracts for MATS. At cut-rate prices established by competitive bidding, nonskeds got the right to fly to given points regardless of the regular carriers already certificated on the route. The effect, CAB now concedes, was to develop "what amounts to an overlapping air transport system...