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...mills of bureaucratic justice at the Federal Aviation Agency grind somewhat slower than Mach 2-but sure. Onto the agency's docket for "careless" piloting went none other than the FAA Administrator himself, ex-Navy Jet Jockey Najeeb Halaby, 46, who a month ago grazed a United Air Lines Viscount while taxiing out of Washington's National Airport. Squeaked one of the mice in charge of chasing the cat: "The case is being processed in the same way as for any airman...
...Justice Earl Warren leaned forward, half-smiled, and shattered an old tradition. Henceforth, he announced, the court will meet at 10 a.m. each Monday through Thursday instead of at noon. Reason: to speed up the work of the court, which this fall has 1,063 cases already on the docket-a record for the opening of a session...
...proposal to put the Angola troubles on the General Assembly agenda. Just before the vote, Portuguese U.N. Delegate Vasco Vieira Garin stalked out of the Assembly hall "in the name of justice and right." Then, by a vote of 79-2, the Assembly voted to put Angola on the docket. France and Britain were among the eight who abstained. The U.S. reaffirmed its earlier stand, voted with the majority. Portugal's two lonesome defenders: Franco Spain and South Africa...
...many Faculty evidently think it. The experiment has been tried; it is time that discussion of it be carried from the confines of the office of Advanced Standing. The Faculty ought at last to have its chance to see it brought up as a separate item on its docket, and to consider ending...
...York Surrogate's Court untangled the tax and other claims on the $607,128 estate of the late Pepsi-Cola Chairman Alfred Steele, it appeared that there would be nothing left for his widow, Pepsi Prolocutrix (and Cinemactress) Joan Crawford, 52. Also on the Surrogate's docket last week: a claim by Socialite lleana Bulova, for the widow's share of the $10 million to $15 million left by the late Arde Bulova. Still the smashing-looking blonde she was at 18, when first wooed by the watch magnate. the Rumanian-born widow, now 34, charged that...