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Delays Endured. The merger would combine the 8,282-mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,747-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,538-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 922-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The resulting 26,509-mile system, including a few subsidiaries, would serve 17 states and two Canadian provinces, from Chicago to Vancouver, from Galveston to Winnipeg. The merged northern lines, to be known as the Burlington Northern Inc., would rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Penn Central and the Southern Pacific), with 1967 revenues of $875 million...
CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt., from July 22 through Sept. 21. Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, and Henry IV, Part 2, are the Shakespearean entries, counterpointed by Waiting for Godot...
...GRANT JR. Burlington, Mass...
...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...
...like to include the Milwaukee Road. The Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, with 9,200 miles of frequently parallel track, hope to merge too. The Missouri Pacific is anxious to take over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The three "Northerns"-the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington-have been given tentative ICC permission to combine lines that cover most of the territory between Chicago and the Pacific. The Rock Island Line, an enticing property despite financial difficulties, has a plethora of suitors. Hoping to take all or part of the Rock Island over are the Union Pacific...