¶ Louis J. Hector, 43, most outspoken and independent thinker on the five-man Civil Aeronautics Board, resigned last week after 2½ years of taking strong objection to the board's performance. A former Rhodes scholar and Miami lawyer, Democrat Hector sent a 72-page memo to President Eisenhower with his resignation, urged a sweeping reorganization of the functions of the nation's regulatory agencies to rid them of detail and give them more independence. He also suggested less CAB control of the airlines, more freedom to make their own decisions on strictly business matters. Wrote Hector: "The agencies are long on judicial form...
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