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...Luke is no run-of-the-mill Christ figure. He is above all a rebel and his deification is reserved for the finale. He is far more Marlon Brando than Billy Budd. He tries to escape from camp twice and is brutally punished. Beaten into submission, he tells the guards, "I got my mind right. Don't hit me anymore." But he gets away again and is eventually trapped in a church, where with cops and rifles all around, he calmly sticks his head out a window and gets it blown...
...danger lingers though that the board may develop a few more Captain Veres to play opposite his Billy Budd and that the marina-by-the-sanitary-canal may get no farther than the artist's sketch.Vinton W.Bacon isn't as mild-mannered as he looks. His iron hand tactics cleaned up Chicago sewer politics but now threaten to alienate the board whose support he needs...
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...Flying Tiger increased its revenues by 53% to $86 million, while multiplying its profits nearly threefold to $12.1 million. What makes the record all the more impressive is the fact that the airline was founded in 1945 on an investment of $180,000 and a rickety fleet of eight Budd Conestogas. Briefly called the National Skyway Freight Corp., it took its subsequent name-and many of its top personnel-from the legendary Flying Tigers, volunteer American pilots who flew for China early in World War II. Disbanded as a unit 25 years ago last week, most of the Tigers began...
...railroads, which lost about $400 million hauling passengers last year, are also counting on a boost from new equipment. Last week a high-speed train, manufactured by the Budd Co., hit 156 m.p.h. on a 21-mile strip of New Jersey test track. Financed by the Federal Government, the speedster promises three-hour service in October between Washington and New York, cutting present track time by 45 minutes. For long-haul service, however, the future remains gloomy on U.S. railroads. Only last month, B. F. Biaggini, president of the Southern Pacific Co., told a West Coast audience that "the long...