Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lillian Ross is a girl-about-town. She frequents the Village, Central Park, the hairdresser's and other people's apartments. Her tastes in celebrities range from the late Dag Hammarskjold to Zero Mostel to Miss Teen-Age America to Lassie (her favorite television star). What makes Miss Ross different from thousands of other girls-about-town is that she writes about it. With deftness, lucidity, and wit. In Talk Stories, a collection of sixty "Talk of the Town" pieces from the New Yorker. Miss Ross has further established her reputation as a reporter sans rival and shows another side...
City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 has turned down the Cambridge City Council's request for more security guards in the Harvard, Central, and Kendall Square MBTA stations...
...time in history, the U.S. Government last week made sense out of the least profitable industry in the most populous part of the nation. The eleven-member Interstate Commerce Commission approved unanimously the coupling of the two biggest railroads in the eastern U.S., the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. The ICC at the same time stalled the merger trend among the richer railroads of the U.S. West. In a surprising and bitterly dissented 6-5 decision, it vetoed-at least for now-a union of the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
From Montreal to Cairo. Despite the stop sign in the West, the go-ahead in the East signals significant progress for the U.S.'s railroads. The Penn Central link-up will be the largest corporate merger ever in U.S. business, forming the nation's biggest new company since U.S. Steel in 1901. Going into business on June 1 will be the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the greatest private transportation outfit in the world, with assets of $6 billion and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. On 19,356 miles of road, it will haul...
...chief executive will be Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders, 56, a Harvard-educated lawyer who started the rail industry's merger marathon a decade ago as boss of the Norfolk & Western, which he arranged to unite with four other roads. The president and chief operating officer will be the Central's Perlman, 63, who is more noted for forceful operating know-how than deft administration. And keeping a close eye on moneybags will be the major stockholders: the Central's Allan P. Kirby and the Pennsy's celebrated Mellon family of Pittsburgh...