Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUTH FARE really dead then? Or will it, like the legendary Phoenix, rise from its funeral pyre to fly again...
...inclination is not to throw my little plastic card away yet. For one thing, the fact that the CAB decided to review the Examiner's Report instead of routinely accepting it suggests that the Board's traditional pro-Youth Fare policy may not die easily. For another, there are many forces at work to encourage CAB leniency...
...argument that Youth Fare promotes education, incidentally, seems as specious to the Examiner as the contention that it promotes highway safety by keeping young people off the road. Said Present' "No probative evidence [suggests] that youth fares have in any way facilitated the acquisition of a college education by any youth...
Such was the reasoning of the CAB Examiner as he signed what he supposed was the document that would kill Youth Fare...
First, most of the airlines want to keep Youth Fare. Rumor has it they have retained President Nixon's former law firm to represent them in the matter (another rumor is that the firm turned them down). The CAB may very well accept the industry point of view, provided it can find statutory justification for doing so. Perhaps the controversial Trans-Pacific Case has involved the Board in enough recriminations for one year...