Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their blue crash helmets, scooter men endure such other names as "blisterheads" and "bubbleheads." But names can never hurt them. So effective are the scootermounted cops that after the first nine putt-putts had been issued to park patrolmen in 1964, muggings dropped by 30% in Manhattan's Central Park, by 40% in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The lesson was not lost; four high-crime precincts were then quickly scooterized. In a recent two-month period, those areas reported the fewest crimes in New York...
...long before USAID-supported programs for civilian pacification got under way, some Americans were hard at work in South Viet Nam helping strife-ridden citizens. Few have worked harder against greater odds than Seattle-born Dr. Patricia Marie Smith, 40, who has been in the central highland province of Kontum since 1959, first helping in a leprosarium, then running her own makeshift clinic, now operating a 40-bed hospital...
...since Teddy Roosevelt 65 years ago successfully fought J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill by contesting what has come to be called the Great Northern case. The question before the Justices: whether, and on what terms, to approve the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central into a $6 billion line stretching over 20,000 miles of track that would represent the largest private rail system in the world. By coincidence, the week also marks the fifth anniversary of the occasion on which the Pennsy and the Central formally announced their plans. The fact delaying lengthy...
...fault is not with the two railroads themselves. Having negotiated for nine years before they finally reached agreement, the Pennsy and Central knew what they wanted to do. Yards and lines were to be gradually integrated, freight schedules speeded up, and the work force gradually trimmed by 5,000 a year through death or retirement. On the basis of what they expected to save by merging, the two estimated that they were losing $225,000 a day because of the delay. Meanwhile, 3,100 workers have been furloughed, and planning is snarled because neither road wants to lay out money...
...delay, which will continue at least until spring because of the Supreme Court hearing, is the doing of other northeastern railroads that would be affected by the merger. The ICC, in unanimously approving the Penn Central, ordered it to continue doing business with smaller railroads and to indemnify them for losses because of the merger. Ultimately, all are likely to find a place in a second big merger between the Norfolk & Western and the C. & O.B. & O. But the smaller lines, notably the Delaware & Hudson, Erie-Lackawanna and Boston & Maine, have taken to the court their vigorous protest...