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...four engines under water before hauling them up for study. Indiana's Democratic Senator Vance Hartke called again for grounding the Electra. Egged on by nervous newsmen who must travel with him on his campaign, Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson switched from an Electra to a Convair. Rumors spread that many large companies were forbidding their employees to fly in Electras. Just two days after the accident at Boston, Eastern's Electra travel was off 21% on all its routes...
...avoid conflicts, more and more companies are setting up rigid policing practices instead of relying on their employees' honor. North American Aviation, Convair and Douglas Aircraft all have strict written rules requiring executives to report the slightest outside involvement. Litton Industries requires its key executives to report their outside interests in writing yearly. Since the Chrysler furor broke, hundreds of companies have sent probing questionnaires to executives . and directors, are quietly investigating their purchasing and marketing practices. One Chicago businessman has private detectives make periodic checks on some 200 executives: "If I hear of one driving a Cadillac...
...Richard Nixon could have been taken for legendary Joe Btfsplk, the creature out of L'il Abner who always walks under a cloud. There was his trouble on the TV debate with Kennedy. Rain dogged him from Illinois to New York to Massachusetts. Chowder fog slowed his chartered Convair while crowds waited restlessly on the ground below. Gremlins bugged up his public-address system in Long Island City and Schenectady, N.Y., and unfortunate twists crept into his off-the-cuff sallies ("It's our responsibility that we . . . get rid of the farmers" instead of "farm surplus...
...cabin of their chartered Convair was carefully stocked with smelling salts and tranquilizers, the engines were checked and the tanks were topped off. The travelers were ready to go. Then someone realized that they had not alerted the pilot. That little matter attended to, Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird, Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice, and Bobby Kennedy's wife Ethel left Washington last week and headed West on the first all-female foray of the presidential campaign. Disturbed by reports of Texas' growing unhappiness with Lyndon Johnson for supporting the liberal civil rights plank...
Rebel Yells. The crowd was small when the chartered Nixon Convair landed at the Birmingham airport, but people ran out of factories and office buildings to line the curb as Nixon's blue convertible came into the city. Firecrackers boomed and swirls of paper floated down from office windows. A crowd of 15,000-as big as Ike's in 1952-filled Woodrow Wilson Park and spilled into adjoining streets to hear the Vice President speak...