Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strip See-Throughs. Lanai deals with the would-be starlets of Hollywood, but the artist builds it around an upside-down Buick to suggest both physical extravagance and social mobility. His metaphor is also central to the F-111, the 85-ft.-long anatomy of the costly, controversial fighter-bomber, which will go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum next month. He used the F111 to symbolize, among other things, his indignation at the Kennedy assassination, which he sees as the supreme example of "horrible extravagance...
...Cover) No green light flared from a track-side tower; no warning whistle echoed down the line. But no trainman missed the signal. When the Supreme Court gave its approval last week to the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, it was clearing the track for the nation's entire rail system. It was giving railroad management permission to highball into the future...
...page opinion that put an end to ten years of frustrating negotiation and deliberation, the smile on the face of a chunky, balding spectator seemed to light up the marbled chamber. For Stuart Thomas Saunders, 58, the man who has already been picked to head the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the court's 8-0* vote was a singular personal triumph...
...Saunders, as chairman and chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania, who planned the tactics and organized the arguments that led to one of the largest mergers in corporate history. It was Saunders who held the pieces together during the frequent assaults from competitors concerned about the Penn Central's potential power; it was Saunders who won over dubious labor leaders, worried lest future economies lead to fewer jobs. Above all, it was Saunders, the lawyer-turned-railroader, who convinced the Interstate Commerce...
Envious Hill or Harrimcm. Saunders will be working in tandem with the Central's President Alfred E. Perlman, 65, one of the best operating men in the business; and the two men will be managing a railroad empire to excite the envy of a Hill or a Harriman. The Penn Central will operate on 40,000 miles of track in 14 states and two Ca nadian provinces. It will run 4,200 locomotives, 195,000 freight cars, and 4,937 passenger cars. It will also be the nation's largest private landlord, with real estate holdings that include...