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Dryden did it for Virgil, Pope for Homer. A few living poets have recently produced such elegant efforts as Richmond Lattimore's Iliad and Robert Fitzgerald's Odyssey. But to four lively classicists at the University of Texas, who have just launched a pert quarterly called Arion, the field cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure...
...Near Richmond, and not to be confused with Virginia's south-central Prince Edward County, which has closed all public schools to evade integration. Virginia's other regal counties: Prince William, Princess Anne, King George, King William, King and Queen...
When an Imperial Airlines Constellation crashed near Richmond, Va., last November killing 74 Army recruits (TIME, Nov. 17), the resulting clamor touched off a long overdue investigation of the nation's nonscheduled airlines, which last year flew 1.5 billion passenger miles v. 39.8 billion for the scheduled lines. Burgeoning after World War II as ex-military pilots bought dirt-cheap surplus cargo planes, the nonskeds grew like weeds and were treated with an air of benevolent indulgence by the federal regulatory agencies. Politicians championed the fare-cutting nonskeds as the little guys who were fighting the big guys...
...Second Look. The Richmond crash changed the political climate, and when they really began to look, investigators from the Federal Aviation Agency and the Civil Aeronautics Board found disturbing violations among many of the nonskeds: some mechanics were writing maintenance reports to show repairs and checkups that were never done; pilots were flying more than the legal eight hours at a stretch; flight crew training standards were minimal. In addition, non-sked business practices were sometimes downright dubious. President Airlines, which operated a DC-6B that crashed last year off Shannon, killing 83 passengers, got into the business by buying...
...supervision, Congress two months ago passed a new bill requiring all nonskeds to re-apply for certification to the CAB, to carry liability insurance and to maintain a healthier financial status. Meanwhile, nonskeds have been dying right and left. Of the 31 nonskeds flying at the time of the Richmond crash, five lines, including President, simply did not re-apply for certification; four others, including Imperial, were grounded for flunking FAA safety tests. The remaining lines last week began appearing before the CAB to plead for recertification...