Word: mid-air
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...from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little Rock chambers, talked long and thoughtfully to Chicago Bureau Correspondents Jack Olsen and Burt Meyers. His one stipulation: no questions about the pending integration case. For a portrait of the man who upheld...
...Near-collisions in mid-air of disastrous proportions are being narrowly averted every day only by the emergency action of skilled pilots or by Providence." So Delaware's Republican Representative Harry G. Haskell Jr. told the House last week after digging into a Civil Aeronautics Board study that reported 452 near-misses between airborne planes during the last four months of 1956. Leading the list was Los Angeles, which recorded 22 near-misses. Other top danger spots were Washington (21 near-misses), San Francisco (14). New York...
...boost present personnel from 16,000 to 24,000 in the next three years, will extend its radio and radar control to all airspace above 15,000 ft. by 1962. Such a program should go a long way toward reducing the hazards of the air. Of the 144 mid-air collisions since 1948, only two occurred under instrument flying controlled from the ground. All the rest happened under visual flight rules...
Word of the Israeli attack was flashed to the President in mid-air as he returned from his one-day campaign trip to Florida and Virginia. Dulles meanwhile conferred with British and French diplomats to prepare the way for U.N. action. In Manhattan U.N. delegates conferred with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. On landing in Washington the President went into immediate conference with Dulles at the White House...
...Air Force, for the second time in less than eight months, grounded all its $8,000,000, 600-m.p.h. B-52s, said they would stay that way until investigators had determined the cause of the crash. Preliminary evidence indicated an electrical-system failure, which was also blamed for the mid-air explosion of another Castle-based B-52 last February, which resulted in a ten-day grounding...