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...Buffalo...
...though poorly organized book that presents the Earps as little better than cow-country Capones. Yet, if he has deflated one dream, Waters, unlike most debunkers. has offered a pleasant vision in its place: that of a gay, gallant old lady in her rocking chair, dreaming of corn-tall buffalo grass and a dead, handsome lover...
...stress of a race. Finisterre's crew members, whose average age is close to 50, are completely interchangeable. A crack helmsman, Mitchell always handles the starts but thinks nothing of giving up the wheel if he feels his touch is off. Chick Larkin, a plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven prep school history teacher, are not only fine navigators but can also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator of a yacht basin in the Bahamas, are famed as helmsmen but are also skilled sail...
Tough Competition. Merger of the Nickel Plate and the Norfolk & Western would give the N. & W. access to the Great Lakes, and create a network stretching from St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo to the Pocahontas coal region of the Virginias. The merged roads would rank among the nation's top ten, have a 4,964-mile network with assets of $1.4 billion. Under the terms of the merger agreement, one share of Nickel Plate common would be exchanged for .45 of a share of Norfolk & Western. Since the two lines do not now link, the merger is contingent...
...shows are as old as roads, but from Massachusetts' Pleasure Island to California's Disneyland, they are boffo as never before-perhaps because restless audiences, tired of passively watching so much canned and channeled entertainment, are eager for such tangible Freedomland features as an electromagnetic dragon, real buffalo grazing the prairies, honest Indians taking passengers for rides in birchbark Chippewa war canoes (the birch bark is actually Fiberglas, and the Chippewas are mainly Cherokees, recruited by Manhattan Cherokee Arthur Junaluska, the ranking redskin in New York). Freedomland's immigration fee is $1 (less for children...