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Accidental Start. Hawaiian-born Patterson started his career as a junior bank executive, got into aviation accidentally; in 1927 he made a loan to Pacific Air Transport, one of the struggling airmail lines that were later grouped into United. When United was organized in 1934, Patterson became its first president. Making way last week for George E. Keck, president since 1963 and United's new chief executive, Patterson allowed himself one small lapse into nostalgia. "I have great respect for marketing and research and for cost accountants," he said. "But I'm glad they weren't around...
...Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party at its weakest point-in the Labor-eroded northwest...
...Lockheed, still hopes to turn out a commercial version of its C-5A that might carry upwards of 900 passengers. It could be ready in 1970, one year after Boeing begins its deliveries. But Lockheed's facilities are presently committed to fulfilling the Pentagon order for the military transport jet. Douglas Aircraft has designed a DC-10 that is roughly the equivalent of Boeing's 747. Now that Pan Am has ordered its jumbo jet, competitive U.S. airlines such as TWA and United have little choice but to follow suit, and it is possible that Douglas or Lockheed...
Next: SST. Lockheed and Boeing are still locked in lethal competition for Government approval (and subsidies) of a supersonic transport design. To the winner, that approval will be worth at least $10 billion; a decision by President Johnson is expected this year. In their lobbying efforts, Boeing people like to point out that Lockheed has never made a pure-jet commercial passenger plane; Lockheed representatives retort that Boeing has never made a supersonic plane of any sort...
Since 1946, when the International Air Transport Association was set up by the Western world's major airlines, the organization has been headed by Britain's Sir William ("Dick") Hildred, now 72. Under Hildred, IATA has set standards for everything from meals to airplane-seat sizes. From his headquarters in Montreal, Hildred has long courted controversy, and both friend and enemy agreed that above all he was a fare...