Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the plan, an association of nations using the Suez would hire its own pilots, regulate traffic and collect the tolls. Egypt would be asked to cooperate, and would be paid for its contributed facilities. If Egypt refused to cooperate, the users would set in motion the grand plan of economic strategy, underwritten by the U.S. and described as the Suez Sea Lift (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Nasser's seizure, though it had humiliated the West, had left the West with nothing tangible to complain of. The threat remained only a threat until ships had been stopped or traffic otherwise interfered with. In fact, Nasser has always possessed the physical capability of closing the canal ever since the British evacuated the Canal Zone (he has only to swing shut the railroad bridge), and would still have the capability even after agreeing to any arrangement for international operation short of reoccupation of the Canal Zone in its entirety...
Hugs on the Balcony. Egypt was left with 65 pilots (only 33 Suez-seasoned). Could they and a gradually trained group of volunteer pilots handle the flow of ships and the tricky 103 miles of water without stalling traffic or blocking the canal? At 2:30 Saturday morning the first full convoy of 13 ships pulled out of Port Said with Egyptian pilots. "Give us more ships; we'll take them through," shouted one pilot as he took his tanker into the cut. A second convoy of 29, the largest in months, headed north from the Red Sea entrance...
Inexperienced by comparison with their mates, the 40-odd Egyptians are far too few to keep the canal traffic moving. When Nasser took over six weeks ago. many of the other pilots (mostly French or English) were home on vacation. On the company's promise to continue them on full pay as long as the crisis lasted, many of them refused to report back for duty. Exhausted and disgusted at the extra work thrust upon them under Egyptian management, those that were still on duty seemed ready to quit at the drop of the company...
Died. Charles Jules Lowen Jr., 41, U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administrator, who fought since his appointment last December for an improved air-traffic control system, saw his arguments horribly strengthened when 128 persons died in the crash of two airliners over the Grand Canyon (TIME, July 9); of cancer, one day after the CAA announced a reorganization designed to speed establishment of a $246 million flight control network; in Denver...