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Investigators from the Federal Aviation Agency, Civil Aeronautics Board and FBI arrived like an army at the crash sites. From Dayton, Ohio, where he had just delivered a speech honoring the Wright brothers, FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada sped to New York to direct the investigation. The answers to all the dark question marks would come only with careful sifting of evidence, but educated guesswork by trained observers already pointed...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). A rerun of the 1958 TV adaptation of Harvey, with Art Carney as the harebrained Elwood P. Dowd...
...masterminds of baseball's American League put their masterminds together in Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel, decided to award their Washington, D.C. franchise to none other than retired Air Force General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 56, now Federal Aviation Administrator. Longtime Baseball Fan Quesada must quit his Government job to organize the club, which will fill the vacancy left when the unwinning Senators team moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul last month. Estimated cost of the franchise: $3,500,000. Says Quesada: "I don't have that, but I've got backers...
When a Lockheed Electra plunged 62 persons to their death in Boston Harbor fortnight ago, Administrator Elwood R. Quesada of the Federal Aviation Agency pointed the finger of blame at the flocks of starlings that populate the runway areas of Boston's Logan International Airport. Last week investigators found preliminary proof to indict the starlings, indicated that a flock of 10,000 to 20,000 starlings slammed into the Electra 25 seconds after it left the ground...
Dead Starlings. Just back from a tour of the Soviet Union, and not even unpacked, Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood ("Pete") Quesada flew in to head the investigation. He had good reason: Eastern's Flight 375 was the fifth Electra crash since the big four-engined turboprop planes went into service two years ago, and it was he who had opposed grounding 140 still flying. At least two of the crashes could be charged to pilot error, but study of others-mid-air disintegration over Indiana and Texas-had disclosed serious structural flaws. Weak ened outboard engine nacelles tended...