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What is the solution to the traffic jam? CAAdministrator Frederick B. Lee, a crack pilot who during World War II literally wrote the military's book for instrument flying, thinks the answer lies in 1) better position finders on the ground and in the air, and 2) better communications between airports and pilots. By thus extending the range of the aerial police, traffic jams can be stopped before they develop. A basic need on the ground is long-range radar equipment, a high-cost item that only a small percentage of U.S. airports now has. CAA's proposal...
...streaks on into the. jet age, Congress must be prepared to appropriate more money for airport improvement-and the airlines must keep their own equipment up to date in the air. A little more public and private (i.e., airline) money would go a long way toward breaking the traffic jam on the airways, before it cripples air transportation...
When people try to figure out Dave Brubeck, the result is quite a psychological jam session. "The reason Brubeck is great," says a business associate, "is that he was one guy who knew what he wanted and kept after it." Says his wife Iola: "He's a guy who is very tolerant of other people. For that reason he's always attracted others to him, often lonely people." Says Dave's oldest brother Henry (a music educator in the Santa Barbara school system): "Dave always had my father's horse sense. When we boys were broke...
...help his father in his business, Dave studied to be a veterinarian at the College of the Pacific at Stockton, Calif. But he switched to music after one year. Dave and two roommates moved into a cellar they called "the bomb shelter," which was soon embroiled in a continual jam session. Dave began playing jazz piano in nightclubs. He also played on a weekly campus radio show whose co-director was a pretty sophomore named Iola Marie Whitlock. Dave stomped his feet so hard as he played that the noise almost drowned out the music, so she made him take...
...serenade what underrates and guests who stick around or who jam into Ivy, Cottage, Campus, and Tower, The Princetonian has contracted Billy Butterfield's band and singer Jane...