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Live ones, after a 135-m.p.h. plunge into freezing water and the swift current, were few. First Officer Frank S. Hlavacek, 33, clung weakly to a crumpled wing. Passenger Robert Sullivan, 8, bobbed to the surface with his dying mother, looked vainly for his father and two sisters. Stewardess Joan Zeller, 21, floated limp and badly injured. Despite the rescuers' heroic toil, there were only eight survivors -five passengers and three crew. The others-65 in all-died in the crash...
...sums on high-cost hydroelectric and chemical projects that Khrushchev himself had to interfere and set things right. Four days later, Pravda reported on a back page that appeals had been received against "decisions of expulsion from the party," suggesting that Khrushchev had earmarked his victims but had no current need of doing them...
...PILOT PAY of $33,000 a year will go to jet captains flying maximum of 85 hours a month for Pan American World Airways, up from current ceiling of $25,000 for DC-7C skipper. New Pan Am contract also puts three pilots plus flight engineer in jets...
...postal handling costs for the U.S., but it brings to P-B exceptionally high profits of 9? per revenue dollar. P-B announced this week that 1958 earnings rose 7% to $4.4 million on gross income of $51.3 million. P-B will split its stock three for one (current price: $92.50), boost the annual dividend rate from...
...Strikes, No Unions. P-B instituted group life insurance in 1928, profit-sharing for all employees in 1936 (current share: 6½%; of base pay), health insurance in 1941, noncontributory pensions in 1948. P-B has never had a strike, and the last attempt to unionize the company was snowed under 2 to 1 back in 1946. But Pitney-Bowes does have an elaborate parliament of workers, supervisors and brass who meet regularly and publicly discuss everything from the cafeteria's coffee (pretty good) to wages (above average...