Word: centrality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Central Park simmered in the noonday heat as Conductor Leonard Bernstein stripped to his skivvy shirt and led the New York Philharmonic through an alfresco rehearsal. Next day Lennie bounded around the 15-acre field before the bandstand listening to the loudspeakers, at one point sent his eleven-year-old son scampering for an engineer when he found a dead spot. Lennie and the boys weren't the only ones willing to sweat for their music. The audience started arriving to stake out the best spots at 9 a.m. on the day of the concert, first in New York...
...Twentieth Century, whose 80-man crew now often outnumbers passengers, approached last week when New York Central President Alfred E. Perlman announced plans to abandon, starting Jan. 1, all passenger routes of over 200 miles...
Profits & Previews. Over 80 years ago, according to legend, William H. Vanderbilt was asked if he operated the passenger trains of his New York Central & Hudson River Railroad for profit or for public service. "The public be damned!" was his immortal reply. "We run them because we have to. They don't pay." The modern New York Central has changed its manner, if not its mind. Along with the Central's Twentieth Century and New York-Detroit Wolverine, the venerable Spirit of St. Louis may also be eliminated if the Interstate Commerce Commission approves the request...
...place of the great old trains and of its other long-haul passenger runs, the New York Central plans to start swift, spartan (no club cars) daytime shuttle service between some 80 cities along its 10,000-mile system. This, said Perlman, will "best serve the needs of the traveling public"-not to mention the Central's balance sheet...
...preview of the kind of service to come, a self-propelled Central car, fitted with a streamlined snout and topped with a pair of Air Force surplus jet engines, last week whined through the flat farm country between Butler, Ind., and Stryker, Ohio, at a U.S. rail record of 184 m.p.h. The test indicated that with existing technology and only minor changes in roadbeds, U.S. passenger trains can easily reach the 125-m.p.h. speed at which experts say railroads can profitably compete with airlines for the short-haul passenger trade. Said Perlman, 63, who acted as "copilot...