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...extraction. He is familiar with the growing problems of air traffic control that plague his agency. He was vice chairman of the President's 1955-57 Aviation-Facilities Study Group, which warned that fast-moving jets would soon saturate U.S. airways. Experienced both in Government service (Defense Department, ECA, NATO) and private industry (Servomechanisms, Inc.), "Jeeb" Halaby made it clear that he intends to exercise the same firm control over FAA that characterized Quesada's service. In all efforts to minimize the perils of U.S. airspace, said Halaby, he would deal directly with President Jack Kennedy...
...ideas, notably the theory that only pump-priming could make the economy grow. During World War II, Brookings went into everything from manpower allocation to postwar reconversion. In 1947, when Congress scrapped on foreign aid proposals, Brookings settled the fight with a plan that became the basic charter of ECA...
overseas, while billing their own sales to the U.S. at $1.43, thus breaking the ECA regulation that ECA oil had to match the "lowest competitive market prices." Last week, in a Manhattan courtroom...
...District Judge Thomas F. Murphy ruled that Caltex, the only one of the three so far brought to trial, was not guilty. At exactly the same $1.75 price, said Caltex, it sold twice as much oil on the free market to willing European customers as it sold through ECA. Ruled Murphy, throwing out the Government's claim to $65.7 million in damages: "The defendants' proof showed beyond contradiction that the prices financed by ECA were in fact the lowest competitive market prices. Throughout the entire period ECA continued to finance at such prices, which perhaps more than anything...
...Vienna, as U.S. representative to the new International Atomic Energy Agency, Deputy U.S. Representative to the U.N. James J. Wadsworth. A onetime (1931-41) Republican member of the New York State legislature, Wadsworth, 51, served in a variety of federal executive posts (e.g., ECA, Civil Defense) before Ike appointed him to the U.N. in 1953, is a logical choice for the new job: at the U.N., Ambassador Wadsworth was the key U.S. negotiator in the talks that set up the agency...