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After just one ad (on Oct. 4) in selected Northeastern newspapers, the Auto-Train has been booked for all of December and part of January. Principal credit for the operation goes to its president, Attorney Eugene Garfield, 35, who was serving as assistant to Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd in 1969 when friends with some investment capital persuaded him to head up the project. Bankers refused the group additional money. As Garfield recalls: "The reaction we got was 'Who would start a railroad in the year 1969?' " But even as major cities like Dallas were losing rail passenger service...
...must pick their way through mud and construction material to reach their still incomplete quarters. The role of the Mafia in the construction of the building-first in slowing down work, then in Cammillieri's speedup-is dismissed with studied ignorance by the contractor. Said Bateson Superintendent Paul Boyd: "Cammillieri kept Local 210 off my back. That alone was worth what we paid him. He did a job for us-but I don't know...
...Knight newspapers received a call from a man who admitted he was using a pseudonym. Was the Knight chain interested in the papers? Then it would have to agree that it would protect them against Government seizure. The editor consented and told his Washington bureau chief, Robert Boyd, to expect a long-distance call. The stranger telephoned Boyd several times, each time offering a hint as to where the secret documents might be found. "It was like a treasure hunt," explained one editor...
...Boyd finally was led to a point outside Washington (he will not say where). There he found some 1,000 pages of the Pentagon report. The Knight package consisted of an orderly presentation with occasional marginal notes like "Wow!" inked beside some Pentagon statements. On most pages, a slip of paper had been placed over the secrecy classification when the photocopy was made, blanking it out. But on a dozen pages Knight newsmen found the words TOP SECRET?SENSITIVE. At the Boston Globe, the pickup arrangements sounded so melodramatic that editors suspected a hoax. But they went along and received...
Died. Lord John Boyd Orr, 90, Nobel-prizewinning nutritionist; near Edzell, Scotland. A pipe-smoking Scotsman who advocated the creation of a "global granary" to feed the world's hungry, Lord Boyd Orr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 after battling hunger as the first director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...