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...problem is the high dropout rate among air controller trainees at the FAAs Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. When the strike began last August, the FAA announced plans to train 5,500 new controllers a year, triple the usual number; nine months later only 1,490 have graduated from the Oklahoma academy. Of the 717 trainees who enrolled in the first class last August, only 406 passed; normally 75% of the trainees graduate from the twelve-to 16-week program. Since then, the entrance exams have been made more stringent, and the FAA claims that now about...
DIED. A. S. Mike Monroney, 77, tall, amiable Oklahoma Democrat who in the course of a 30-year (1939-69) House and Senate career became known as Capitol Hill's "Mr. Aviation"; of a heart attack and pneumonia; in Rockville, Md. He earned the nickname because of his efforts to promote the growth of the U.S. air-travel industry, which included the introduction in 1958 of the bill that created what is now the Federal Aviation Administration...
Aquatic Paradise. The key to the Dust Bowl's transformation is the recent availability and control of water. It was always there, but it either lay inaccessible 500 feet below the surface, or turned to torrents in destructive floods. The answer to both problems was dams. Senator Mike Monroney championed the ranchers in the western part of the state who wanted small reservoirs for their dry-land irrigation. Until his death in 1963, Senator Robert S. Kerr lobbied for large flood-control dams in the river-ravaged east. As Monroney recently explained it: "We incorporated the little-dam program...
Some old Senate oaks were cut down. His age, liberalism and prolonged absences from Oklahoma frustrated the fourth-term bid of Mike Monroney, 66, the industrious populist who has been the leading aviation specialist in the Senate. He was beaten by Republican ex-Governor Henry Bellmon, 47. Much the same factors conspired to defeat Alaska's Ernest Gruening, 81, who campaigned so lackadaisically that he lost the Democratic primary...
...sure as hell not a John Bircher or an isolationist." His political acumen made Bellmon, now 47, the first Republican Governor (1963-67) in Oklahoma's 61-year history, and now sends him to the Senate. Mindful that he overturned able Democratic Veteran Senator Mike Monroney with the argument that Monroney, 66, had lost touch with his grass roots, Rancher Bellmon is not likely to spend all his time in Washington...