Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inevitably, that brought charges that a grateful Republican Administration was closing the books on Powell. A New York grand jury even threatened to take matters into its own hands unless it got more cooperation from Justice Department lawyers. With that, the investigation picked up again. Last week the grand jury indicted Adam Clayton Powell on charges that he helped prepare a fraudulent 1951 tax return for his wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, and evaded payment of taxes on $3,700 in a 1952 joint return. Moreover, at week's end, New York's Democratic organization was considering dropping...
...Boston's Mayor John Hynes did not want to hear arguments or evidence. He ordered that no licenses be issued for any more rock 'n' roll shows, and a Boston grand jury returned an indictment against Freed-under an old "anti-anarchy" law-for inciting "the unlawful destruction of property." Professing alarm, and perhaps jumpy over growing criticism of juvenile delinquency, officials in New Haven and Newark seized on the Boston incident as an excuse to ban scheduled Freed appearances...
Commercial airliners, the Airline Pilots Association has disclosed, are involved in an average of four near-collisions every day, and in one quarter of these the planes pass within 100 feet of each other. From 1950 till the Grand Canyon disaster on June 30, 1956, almost seventy collisions involving civil airplanes took place(not including a high military total), but none had previously involved passenger planes. Many experts consider it possible, even likely, that a collision might occur over a large city, where the worst traffic jams are located...
...case history of the Grand Canyon disaster indicates some of the shortcomings of the present traffic control system. The two planes--a Trans-World Airlines Super-Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7--took off from Los Angeles three minutes apart and were to fly approximately the same course. The TWA plane, flying at 17,000 feet, ran into a thunderstorm and requested permission from a Civil Aeronautics Administration station, to climb to 21,000 feet; the request was turned down because the UAL plane already occupied that altitude. The TWA pilot then asked to fly 1000 feet "above...
Both pilots in the Grand Canyon incident were on "visual flight rules," and not assigned to a definite airway, because Arizona and most of the Southwest are classified as "free air," and are not completely controlled...