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United Air Lines, the nation's biggest, rounded out a year of record losses last week with an announcement that shook the industry like a sudden downdraft. After several days of boardroom skirmishing, George E. Keck was bumped as president of United and chief executive officer of UAL, Inc., the line's holding company. Almost as surprising was the choice of Keek's successor: Edward E. Carlson, the chief of Western International Hotels Co., which was acquired by UAL only last August. Carlson, 59, has never before been in the airline industry. In that troubled industry, there...
...days ago, four airline chiefs slipped into the White House for an unpublicized hour-long chat with Richard Nixon. Exactly what the quartet -George Keck, president of United, Charles Tillinghast, chairman of TWA, Floyd Hall, president of Eastern and George Spater, chairman and president of American-told the President is supposed to be secret. Anyone who can read a profit-and-loss statement, however, will have little trouble guessing what the meeting was about. The airline chiefs complained to Nixon that their industry is in its worst financial mess since the introduction of passenger jets in the late 1950s...
...embarrassed by the publicity that he has received ("I don't like running a law office in the public press"), McLaren took his law degree at Yale in 1942. Since then he has spent most of his career specializing in antitrust cases at the Chicago firm of Chadwell, Keck, Kayser, Ruggles and McLaren. As head of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Law Section since 1967, he updated a 1955 report on antitrust activities, and was recommended by his colleagues as an unusually well-qualified candidate...
...that followed, the Ryders moldered in the Smithsonian's cramped spaces. At last, when Congress approved a new gallery for the National Collection of Fine Arts in 1958, the Smithsonian could look forward to having a proper showcase for its Ryders. It commissioned Art Restorers Sheldon and Caroline Keck to rehabilitate Ryder's ravaged oils...
...flow limits at congested airports. Nowhere is the saturation of the market-and sky-more glaring than on the run between Chicago and New York, which, with 110 daily flights each way, is one of the world's most heavily traveled routes. United's president, George E. Keck, whose company is one of the route's prime contenders (others include American and TWA), admits that "a shakedown" in the number of flights is probably inevitable. One way to accomplish that would be to set up a computerized pool arrangement that would enable competing airlines to keep track...