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When Financial Impresario O. Roy Chalk purchased the D.C. Transit System in 1956, streetcars still rumbled through the nation's capital, passengers sweltered or froze in antiquated buses and the books were in chaos. Chalk promised a new deal, then set about proving that he was as adept at running an essential public service into the ground as the man he bought it from, Wheeler-Dealer Louis Wolfson. Things did get better for a time before they got worse, but today Washington's transit system is a shambles, threatened with financial crisis, a crippling drivers' strike...
...Chalk's problems stem from what Senator George Murphy terms "some new type of financial legerdemain," but what might more accurately be attributed to, as Senator John J. Williams puts it, "a case of having milked the company dry of its assets." Chalk started out well enough. He replaced old streetcars with spiffy new air-conditioned buses, and demanded prompt, courteous service from his drivers. Longstanding union grievances were eased by increasing drivers' wages to the point that they were the fourth best in the country for city transport workers. Within two years, however, Chalk began paying dividends...
...artists of this atelier. Giovanni Raggis works are much more subdued than Tiepolo's works: Raggi's less effective style of wash makes one appreciate Tiepolo. Raggi's "Virgin" (=25) clearly evolves from specific Tiepolo drawings such as =12, Tiepolo's influence on Francesco Lorenzi is also prevalent. The chalk drawings of these two artists were sometimes indistinguishable...
...director Aram Avakian co-authored the screen play. End of the Road was made with a great deal of improvisation in an abandoned textile factory in Great Barrington, Mass. The resulting film has all the flaws of Southern's earlier screenplay effort, Easy Rider, and none of its graces. Chalk up End of the Road to Southern's growing list of dismal creations that include such abortions as The Loved Ones, Barbarella and The Magic Christian...
Stereotype No. 1: High school teachers are fussy, frightened and old, hiding from the world in a cloud of chalk dust. Stereotype No. 2: High school principals wear three-piece suits, stern expressions and are totally devoid of humor. Good shows often result from giving the lie to stereotypes, witness ABC-TV's Room 222, which features a handsome black history teacher (Lloyd Haynes) and a rumpled, comfortable principal (Michael Constantine), whose strongest trait is a sense of underplayed humor. It works; in the current season, Room 222 has appeared consistently among the ten top-rated programs, and deserves...