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Elected by the exclusive 40 of the French Academy to join their "immortal" numbers, poetic Director Rene Clair, 61, shocked his new fellows a trifle by proclaiming in his acceptance speech: "It's so much easier to be immortal while living than after death...
...clip Quesada's power, Sayen has persuaded California Democratic Senator Clair Engle and Mississippi Democratic Representative John Bell Williams to introduce identical bills in the Senate and House. They would give the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to review all the FAA rulings, in effect making the FAA as slow and cumbersome as the CAB. The bills also call for public hearings before the FAA can suspend a pilot's license. Cries Sayen: "The law which concentrates such power in one man that he can, by hastily conceived, dictatorial, unnecessary and arbitrary actions, provoke such chaos while attempting...
...Herschel Cellel Loveless, and Minnesota's Orville Lothrop Freeman-and it fits them just as aptly. Farther West, Kennedy's braintrusters have spread news that they are also considering Washington's Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, California's Senator Clair Engle, and even Arizona's Congressman Stewart Udall. South of the Mason-Dixon line, their only live entry has been Florida's Governor Leroy Collins...
...very disturbing," declared Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that U.S. justice can be "pressured by groups of people in Europe and incipient mobs of students in a small Latin American country." Others, including California's Senators Thomas Kuchel and Clair Engle, found the Rubottom telegram unwarranted...
...Clair River at Algonac, Mich. Today, from its Pompano Beach, Fla. headquarters, Chris-Craft operates nine plants that produce more than 8,000 boats a year, from 17-ft. runabouts (at $3,335) to 66-ft. motor yachts ($160,000). In the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1959, its sales to taled nearly $40 million with earnings of $2,500,000. Sales are running at a rate of more than $50 million a year. Smith will remain as chairman, along with the rest of Chris-Craft's management. Wall Street speculated that NAFI would soon change its name...