Word: dogfighter
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President Eisenhower got caught in the propwash of an airline battle last week. As a result, he came within an ace of knocking Northwest Airlines off one of its most prized routes. The dogfight was between Northwest and Pan American World Airways over which should fly the Pacific between Seattle-Portland and Hawaii, a profitable run that both have been operating on a temporary basis since 1948. The Civil Aeronautics Board finally reached a unanimous decision: Northwest should have the route alone. But when the CAB recommendation went to the White House a fortnight ago, it ran into opposition...
...Union [of South Africa] has failed. We have not been able to build a nation. Let us accept the divorce, end the dogfight." Thus, last week, spoke Heaton Nicholls, 77, grand old man of British South Africa. A lifelong champion of Empire who carried the white man's burden as soldier (on India's North West Frontier), colonial administrator and judge (among the Papuan cannibals), Nicholls was alarmed by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Boer victory at the polls (TIME, April 27). Heaton's proposal: the predominantly British province of Natal should secede from the Union...
...picture had an equally interesting story, according to Mrs. Dobbins. A young Air Force man, flying over Korea, had snapped a dogfight between a U.N. plane and a Communist plane. He had sent the film home to his mother in Chicago to be developed. When it was, she was amazed to see the image in the clouds. She sent the copy to her brother in Ashland, who made more copies. Mrs. Dobbins had got her picture from a neighbor, who got it from her daughter-in-law, who bought it for $1 from a woman who got it from...
...feel pretty good when you're on someone's tail and shooting at him. You don't know there are other planes in the sky. The speeds are terrific-we actually dogfight at Mach 1.0, the speed of sound. The controls are hard to move and you have to use both hands on them...
...decide it "once and for all." Some people see in this move a last minute attempt by retiring Commissioner Chandler to prove his indispensible political influence. Whatever the lawmakers may say, the reserve clause is essential. Without it, signing of contracts every year would turn into a running dogfight between the owners and players, in which the rich clubs would corral the best talent. Further, owners would not pour thousands of dollars into the huge farm systems which produce the ballplayers, without assurance that players thus developed would not join another club later...