Mail Speed-Up Plan Causing More Air Crashes
Washington reports the Post Office overnight mail flight program using private air taxis shows a fatal crash rate 5.7 per 100000 hours, nearly twice the national rate for pilots. FAA audits, safety reviews, and contract pushback follow as officials warn against risky weather and minimal pilot experience on night routes.
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ATIC
Post Office Department
Tnittle
Ning
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
America
North Carolina
Charlotte
K Time
Red Bank
N.J
Charles A. McIntyre
McInghe
Bit Airlines
Tut Geure S. Buchanan
AA Operations
Buchanan
PAL
Post Office
McIntyre
Sedalia, Marshall and Boonville Stage Line, Inc
Kansas
Sealab researchers map sonar risks from deepsea mammals
Experts warn that trained porpoises could be used to deliver time fused explosives or locate ships by underwater sounds. Sealab 3's William Bunton will lead noise identification while divers test how sea mammals distinguish vessel signatures and how sonar recordings could blunt their hearing.
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William Bunton
San Diego
Calif
Sealab 3
Dick Gregory at Westminster Lincoln Day show
Dick Gregory wore an Army jacket and a beard as he mocked Lincoln and spoke to a mostly white crowd at Western Maryland College. Andrew Hatcher, former Kennedy spokesperson, joined on stage to urge black and white cooperation, while Gregory urged responsibility and change.
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Westminster
Dick Gregory
Lincoln
Western Maryland College
Abraham Lincoln
America
Gregory
Andrew Hatcher
Kennedy
Johnson
Hatcher
Martin Luther King
Abel Wins Re election as United Steelworkers President
Abel won re election as president of the United Steelworkers with a 182000 to 100.09 margin over Emil Narick as 2,596 of 3,700 locals reported. He filed no public comments and returned to work at the union headquarters, with official results due May 1. Narick criticized contracts and sought broader rank and file input.
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Pittsburgh
Abel
United Steelworkers
Emil Narick
Associated Press
Narick
Giant Yoyo Demonstration At Dalton School
A 10th hour nylon stringed wooden YoYo, four pounds and 15 inches, descended from a 10th floor window at Dalton School in New York. Five year-old Anthony Cohan guided the huge toy to back to safety amid cheers from faculty and students as headmaster Donald Burr praised the feat as a heroic concept and a record setting project.
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Dalton
1St 49Th Street
Anthony Cohan
Tly
Donald Burr
Cahan
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