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...bling green trucks have been rolling toward a dead end. Jointly owned by 58 railroads, the sprawling company has been plagued by inefficiency and red tape. The main reason: its ties to railroads impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners...
...coaches, classify each freshman under the following headings. The names and ratings given below are imaginary. ADAMS, AIKEN, ALLEN, ALT Carl John Peter David Secondary School type 5 2 3 5 (See below) Rank in class 15 4 3 23 Size of class 250 300 65 220 Advance standing -- AP -- -- Rank list (First term) 3 2 3 4 Predicted Rank List 32 26 29 35 SAT scores 4 2 3 3 Extracurricular--secondary 3 3 1 4 Athletic--secondary 2 4 3 1 Personal G S W A (See below) Scholarship award yes -- -- yes Father's college...
...regularly played the bugle at major Arlington Cemetery funerals, rushed out to get a haircut. Six members of Kennedy's Cabinet and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, in a jet over the Pacific heading for a meeting in Japan, got the words of the shooting via an AP ticker. Some immediately began jotting down notes of their personal impressions-which triggered bitter anger in others. Salinger, stricken to "a semi-coma," quickly organized a poker game, played blindly and madly during the entire nine-hour flight back to Washington, wound up winning $800 and "was appalled...
...AP reporter, whose job at the State Department consists in a very large measure of assessing the verbal nuances that make news, could have given them the explanation that night. "I guess they just played it too smooth," he said simply as he put down the receiver. "You kept wondering what the hell they were really after...
...confirms my suspicions. One answer would be a vehicle combining a conventional internal com- bustion engine and an electric engine with batteries. In the country the car could be propelled by the internal combustion engine and at the same time charge up the batteries. At points on the highways ap- proaching metropolitan areas, signs would warn the driver to switch to electric propulsion. He would then have enough electric power to carry him in and around the metropolitan area. The unfortunate ones living in the smog area would have to rely on the home battery charger...