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DISPUTED RULING by CAB allows financial Wheeler-Dealer Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to control West-Coast-based, non-sked Transocean Air Lines while it already controls Northeast Airlines. In a 4-1 opinion, CAB declared Odium violated Sherman Antitrust Act, but said illegal action was "outweighed by public interest...
...London after the President had seen the others, but as he explained to his advisers: "I would either have been compelled to accept what the other three had agreed on in their previous meetings, or, if I disagreed with their plans, I would be saddled with the odium of disturber of the peace." So Eisenhower will see Adenauer first in Bonn next week. In anticipation, the President's personal pilot, Colonel William A. Draper, test-landed Ike's specially fitted Boeing 707 at Wahn Airport and found the approaches and runway (2,450 yds.) long enough...
...Cantabrigians showed 52% against the addition. Literary Scholar Eustace Tillyard, master of Jesus College, called the plan "pernicious," added with scorn and resignation that ''mere flesh and blood do not reject the bait of a million pounds odd, nor does common human decency care to incur the odium" of insulting Sir Winston. Last week, while opponents kept a sullen silence, invitations were sent to 20 architects to compete for the honor of designing the new seat of science...
...Connor announced the decision that had become an ill-kept secret (TIME, July 21), the foundation was accused of claim jumping on an area already staked out and actively worked by another group, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation. Also headquartered in Manhattan, it has Industrialist Floyd B. Odium as chairman and World War II's brush-cut General George C. Kenney as president. Founded in 1948, it has raised progressively larger amounts in annual fund drives, took in almost $3,000,000 last winter...
...Chairman Odium (an arthritis victim himself) wrote O'Connor in January of 1957 suggesting that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation merge for an all-out attack on rheumatic diseases. Through last spring, committees of the two foundations met to hammer out terms, but could not agree. Main reasons: the A. & R. F. allows its local chapters wide autonomy, lets them raise funds independently or through United Fund drives, also lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive...