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...this collision, and the others that occurred before and after it, have demonstrated that a more reliable safeguard that the human nervous system is needed. The CAA tracking system relies on manual posting of each plane's position on a map, and cannot possibly control all flights. In addition, military planes operate under a separate, more stringent control system, and the lack of co-ordination between civil and military aviation can result in such collisions as the one in Nevada last month...
...told a nationwide radio audience to go ahead and celebrate the country's New Year without him: "I am sorry not to be able to personally participate in the rejoicing of my nation on this festive occasion. In order to ensure the future of the country and to safeguard the hereditary monarchy, I was constrained to part with my dear spouse, who during difficult times in the past seven years ever shared my sorrows . . ." In Cologne, ex-Queen Soraya, a divorcee because she bore no children (TIME, March 24), planned a trip, possibly to South America...
...power base secure, T.R. kicked off a momentous new-century campaign to save his countrymen from "government by plutocracy or by mob." His first milestone breakthroughs: 1) first successful antitrust suit brought by an American President to dissolve a corporate monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence...
...U.S.S. Nashville into the port of Colon in Panama to give implicit support to a Panamanian rebellion against Panama's colonial overlord, Colombia. His eventual intention, of course, was to seize or to negotiate possession of a canal zone in Panama, dig the canal, and that way safeguard the defenses of both coasts of the U.S. Said T.R.: "It was imperative ... of vital necessity...
...program today," said the President of the U.S., "can ignore the disclosures of corruption, racketeering and abuse of trust and power in the labor-management field." So saying Dwight Eisenhower last week sent Congress a labor message calling for the most drastic legislation since the Taft-Hartley law to safeguard "the rights of individual workers, the public and management and unions in labor-management relations...