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Last week's only other major appointment was that of Najeeb Halaby to take over from Elwood ("Pete") Quesada as head of the Federal Aviation Agency. A lawyer and longtime pilot (he flew for the Army Air Forces, then for Lockheed, and joined the Navy as a test pilot), Halaby, 45, is a native Texan of mixed ancestry: his father was Syrian, his mother of Irish-English extraction. He is familiar with the growing problems of air traffic control that plague his agency. He was vice chairman of the President's 1955-57 Aviation-Facilities Study Group, which...
...decided that it was time to move Lumumba to a safer place. He opened negotiations with Katanga's Moise Tshombe. Late one night Lumumba was hustled on board a chartered Air Congo plane and delivered to Elisabethville. En route, the guards pummeled Lumumba so severely that the alarmed pilot went back to the cabin to warn against damage to the plane...
...home state for cracking down on speeders. "The lesson of safety cannot be learned too early," he often said, and this year the Rotarians of Rockville, Conn. (pop. 11,000) took him at his word. Ardently backed by School Superintendent Raymond E. Ramsdell, himself a Rotarian, they financed a "pilot project" at Rockville's Northeast School that may be the nation's most feverish excursion into "safety education": driver training for first and second graders using itsy-bitsy pedal cars. Why make motorists out of moppets of six and seven? "We chose them because they fit the only...
Engelhard's interest in South Africa began after World War II, in which he served as a bomber pilot. He went to Africa to buy gold for his father's company, became so impressed with the opportunities that he began quietly launching his own ventures. By 1958 Engelhard felt strong enough to set up his $33.6 million American-South African Investment Co., Ltd., listed the shares on the New York Exchange, giving Americans their first opportunity to buy stocks in a South African company on a U.S. exchange. Last week he added to his holdings by agreeing...
Chadwick first heaved into public view shortly after World War II, in which he had served as a pilot with the Fleet Air Arm. He had by then given up an early ambition to be an architect because he wanted to work on his own without having to meet the demands of clients, contractors and zoning laws. Unsure where his tastes and talents lay, he began by cutting out mobiles, only to find the shapes too "rigid"' for his taste. Like Reg Butler and Geoffrey Clarke, his most notable English contemporaries, Chadwick took to the welding torch...