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...curious payment of $100,000 as a "consultant's fee" to one of Montreal's top travel agents. The fact that Menard had resigned under pressure two months earlier did not prevent a scandal from growing, so the Canadian government asked Ontario Court of Appeal Judge Willard Estey to look into the airline's performance...
...months of hearings, Estey turned up damaging evidence. Menard's $100,000 payment, for example, was explained as "seed money" for investment in a national chain of travel agencies. It had been disguised because both Air Canada's charter and international airline rules forbid the airline to invest in travel agencies; that could give it preferential treatment in ticketing passengers. Menard also was found to have given special "expense accounts" to Lebanese officials in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain landing rights for Air Canada in Beirut...
...always a pleasure to find some news of Amherst in the pages of the CRIMSON, but I must tell you that the name of our good dean is ESTY, not Estey as it appeared in the editorial of the 25th...
Amherst's John Estey, an assistant dean who has written in The Nation on this subject, proposes a third solution, combining the philosophy of universal service with the practical realization that intelligent people can serve in non-military ways. Estey would exempt college students who can find teaching jobs and are willing to serve in them for a period of three years or so. This plan proposes to solve both the educational shortage and manpower surplus problems of the nation, as well as making the individual aware of and at least somewhat enthusiastic about his public duty. It makes...
Conceivably, one could extend Estey's ideas into areas of social service, medical experimentation--those varieties of public service which conscientious objectors now fulfill under the label "alternative service." Our present concepts of manpower, when one considers the possible use of men now deferred, seem most unimaginative...