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...SUMMER LOVERS (307 pp.) - Hollis Alpert-Knopf...
...Author Alpert, 41, who has written for magazines as dissimilar as The New Yorker and Seventeen, has some difficulty totting up the reasons for Sally's amoral behavior. He gets in a few licks at "progressive" education, cuttingly describes the "intellectual bohemianism" of Sally's environment, and then seems to veer to a primitive belief that women lack souls-or, at any rate, consciences. At summer's end all of the men have in a sense been used up and thrown away. The women, as usual, are in control. All in all, the book is satisfactory seashore...
...expects and demands. In January, said Pennsylvania President James M. Symes, gross revenues slipped 15.5% from a year ago to $69.4 million, leaving the line with its third monthly deficit ($2,527,222) in a row. And to underscore the point last week, New Haven President George Alpert, who likes to fiddle to take his mind off his road's troubles, announced that the New Haven's finances were so poor it could not pay some $2,000,000 interest charges due May 1 on its 4½% general mortgage bonds. Instead it will defer the payment, write...
...long as trucks and planes get help, Symes suggested that the railroads be helped too; he recommended that the Government buy rolling stock and lease it to the railroads at a price that would enable the Government eventually to get its money back with interest. George Alpert, president of the New Haven Railroad, went a step further; suggested that eastern railroads that carry heavy loads of commuters, as "a vital public service," get a "modest" 1% of Government highway funds as subsidy. "As ugly and distasteful as the word subsidy may be," said Alpert, "I consider it a welcome alternative...
...Since Alpert took over last January (TIME, Jan. 30), passenger trains have improved their on-time record from...