J/K, this is a question I talked about a long time back in this story thread. TWA did a lot of things different back in the 60's and even into the 70's. Some of the differences were good some were stupid and cost a lot of money.

Every panel in a TWA 707, 727 was turned upside down. The reason was you turned a switch up for on. On the overhead panel Boeing considered the panel a horizontal panel, thus forward was on. TWA thought of the panel as vertical, and up was on. This philosophy was carried into later planes until Boeing said no. The guy responsible for these designs in TWA retired and thus the 767, 757 escaped the changes.  

Putting the RED emergency air brake handle on the left side of the MIP was supposed to give the pilot the ability to use the brake handle with his left hand while allowing the right hand to be able to control the reverse levers. I suppose it could be argued that the tiller would have been something the pilot would may have needed to use as well, but I think at high speed the reverse levers could have been more important.