Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve years as Foreign Minister trying, with some success, to take the rough edges off his government's Soviet-dictated foreign policy. His major contribution was the so-called Rapacki plan of 1957, in which he proposed to the U.N. that all atomic weapons be prohibited in Central Europe, including East and West Germany. It was rejected by the U.S. for lack of adequate guarantees, but may have helped pave the way for the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Rapacki's recent position was weakened not only by refusing to go along with the campaign against Jews, which other...
Geometry is all very well, but it works better if it is combined with wit: witness George Sugarman's whirling yellow-green Square Spiral, which sends the eye circling dizzily through the empty hole of its central vortex. John Anderson has built an immense symmetrical flower-like wood carrousel, calls it Baroque. Minimal forms still massively demand their unrewarding space, but they are countered by weirdly eccentric shapes that are frankly frivolous, at least unpredictable. California's William Geis, the gutsiest of the out-of-town recruits unearthed by the traveling scouts, displays Perusal...
...Penn Central announced that its electric-powered Metroliner will go into service between New York and Washington on Jan. 16, cutting the trip from 3 hr. 35 min. to 2 hr. 59 min. Soon after, a second high-speed train, the gas-turbine TurboTrain will begin plying the New Haven line's rails between Boston and New York, lopping a full hour off the 4-hr. 15-min. trip...
...Engine. The Penn Central Metroliners, built by Philadelphia's Budd Co., can travel up to 160 m.p.h., but will be held to something under 120 m.p.h. Reasons: much slower conventional trains will be ahead of them on the tracks and the roadbeds cannot handle such great speeds. The steel-and-fiber-glass Metroliner units, self-propelled by four 640-h.p. electric motors, can be combined in any number to make a train without an "engine." So far, at least six of them have been accepted by the Penn Central. Another 44 Metroliner cars are scheduled to be put into...
...least of all the railroad industry, has been willing to invest nearly that much. The Turbo-Trains have been further delayed because the New Haven's trustees have been unwilling to introduce costly new equipment until they merge their bankrupt line into a healthy company. The Penn Central was ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission to take over the New Haven on Jan. 1. While it is trying to delay the merger, it is also negotiating with the Department of Transportation to run the Turbo-Trains on the New Haven tracks...