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In the Pan American plan, a widow gets no more benefit of interest than a pilot who leaves Pan American for any reason. Well, you have shown me that the Company plans aren't as good as I though they were. But what has A.L.P.A. to offer that's any better? Retirement plans are like most everything else: after you begin to work with them, you find ways to improve them. Which reminds us that although the plans on United and Pan American have been in effect 7 years, the companies haven't improved them any. And it isn't because they haven't found out plenty of points on which they could be made better. Here's what A.L.P.A. has to offer: 1. Security-income when pilots need it. ALPA proposes a group plan with the members of the group, in effect helping each other. In the company plans, each man works separately with the company to accumulate an annuity for himself. If something happens to a pilot before he's accumulated enough, it's just too bad-and something will happen to most pilots before they have accumulated enough to live on under the company plans. 2. A plan based on an Act of the Congress of the United States, which the companies can't decide to discontinue as they can what they've got now, if they think the pilots are getting too much money; or if they have a scrap with the CAB about airmail rates; or for any other reason. If any of the companies get ready to junk its plan, the real reason may never be told. It is more likely that there would be a lot of ponderous polysyllabic goobledegookish lamentations, imprecations and vitupera- 8