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...compounded by new "superjets" like Boeing's 460-passenger 747. By carrying more people, jumbos should reduce the total number of planes in the air. But on the ground, they will disgorge as many suitcases and passengers as three planes do now-and all at once. Says Najeeb Halaby, former administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and now president of Pan American airlines: "There will probably be only one airport in the world ready for the superjets, and only one parking lot, only one set of highways. And," he adds, "they are not all at the same airport...
Multimillion Call. At Pan Am, Chair man Harold Gray and President Najeeb Halaby were rather chagrined to discover that Resorts had a call on al most 10% of the airline's common stock and could fairly easily become the largest shareholder. Looking into Resorts, they found that it was largely a family affair run by Crosby, 41, and some of his relatives. Crosby in 1958 had taken over the Mary Carter Paint Co. ("Buy One-Get One Free"); he later bought most of Huntington Hartford's interests on Paradise Island and sold the paint-making part...
...Indiana rolling mill, but mix-ups and wrongly thrown switches sometimes cause freight cars to get lost for as much as seven weeks. High-speed, $15 million ocean ships lie idle for days in port while they are loaded by means of archaic slings. No less an authority than Najeeb Halaby, former head of the Federal Aviation Agency, insists that the U.S. really has no system of transportation at all, only a mishmash of "some of the best components anywhere...
...tapped by Kennedy as Internal Revenue Commissioner at a salary of $21,500, Mortimer Caplin was earning $50,000 a year in his tax law practice; since returning to private life more than a year ago, he has built up an income that "runs into six figures." Last week Najeeb Halaby, a onetime Navy test pilot who resigned last July after four years as administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency ($30,000 a year), was elected a senior vice president and board member of Pan American World Airways at $60,000 a year, plus a $35,000 year-end bonus...
...days in discussions about various blots on the landscape and the villains who put them there. "Our enemy is the highway engineer," said a woman delegate from Nebraska, suggesting that all such engineers should be required to take a course in esthetics, including the reading of great poets. Najeeb Halaby, former Federal Aviation Agency chief, said that public officials "are not usually brave enough" to do what they must to preserve natural beauty...