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Santa Fe and Southern Pacific see their union as the best way to compete with two other big Western railroads that were built up through mergers: Burlington Northern and Union Pacific. Says Southern Pacific Chairman Benjamin Biaggini: "It looks as if there isn't going to be a place in the West for smaller systems that don't go everywhere and do everything." Santa Fe and Southern Pacific intend to become more efficient by abandoning duplicate routes and pooling equipment. The combined 57,000-member work force of the two railroads will shrink, but probably through attrition rather...
...invitation. I told Harvard I was not willing to participate at the Korea institute--I don't want to hurt the Korea Institute." Kim adds, "According to newspapers, there was a worry that I might use this University as a base for my politics, but I told Brown [Benjamin H. Brown, then director of the Fellows Program] that I never had any intention [of doing that...
Thus a spur to more Black candidacies for elected office and an assist to the death knell of Black voter apathy constitute important spinoffs from a Jesse Jackson presidential candidacy, thoroughly justifying it. These benefits over-shadow the concern of Jackson's detractors among Afro-American leaders like Benjamin Hooks of the NAACP and the National Urban League's John Jacob, among others, that, in Jacob's words--"the Black [presidential] candidate could very well turn out to be a spoiler--allowing... less desirable candidates to win primaries and perhaps even the nomination...
...stalwarts of the civil rights movement were there. Coretta Scott King, evoking her husband's memory; Atlanta Patriarch Benjamin Mays, delivering a soul-stirring speech from a wheelchair; and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, still undecided about when, or if, he will announce his candidacy for President. Comedian Dick Gregory exhorted the huge audience: "You're the strongest, biggest, blackest organization there...
...DIED. Benjamin V. Cohen, 88, principal draftsman of Franklin D. Roosevelt's early New Deal legislation; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. One of the brightest of F.D.R.'s bright young men, Cohen came to Washington via Harvard Law School and a New York practice and quickly established himself as the most liberal troubleshooter in the President's brain trust. The bashful, bespectacled corporate lawyer-in partnership with the flamboyant politician Thomas G. Corcoran-masterminded the details of establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Fair Labor Standards Act and other governmental landmarks. Cohen...