Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Becalmed between floors in a Chicago hotel elevator. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner displayed a true politician's talent for talking his way out of anything, tranquilized the panic-stricken operator with a soothing filibuster (25 minutes) until rescue time. "She'd never been faced with an emergency before, but after a few minutes she calmed down, and we just chatted until the power was 'resumed," explained Presidential Hopeful Meyner, adding carefully: "We did not discuss politics...
...CHICAGO. Preference has swung toward humanities majors, says Dr. Joseph Ceithaml, dean of students at the medical school: "If two men apply, and both have the required basic scientific courses behind them, and one was a philosophy major and the other solely a premed student, the philosophy man gets the nod." In the past, students headed toward medicine piled up huge backlogs of scientific courses, "which they could very well have done without...
...seemed as if the only friend the hapless suburban commuter had last week was a bold, brainy lawyer who started in the railroad business a mere four years ago. The man: Ben Walter Heineman, 44, chairman of the 9,096-mile Chicago & North Western Railway, which inaugurated a new commuter plan that could well,serve as a guide to troubled roads across the U.S. They sorely needed help. Last week the Lehigh Valley Railroad moaned that it was going broke from its $4,000-$5,000,000-a-year passenger deficit in commuter-heavy New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...times past, North Western commuter trains were slowed down by the necessity of making a multitude of stops within the city, many of them less than a mile apart. Heineman closed 28 stations within Chicago and the close-in suburbs. While the line thus lost 3,000 close-in passengers, it guaranteed better service to its 43,000 far-out commuters, cut their riding time to the Loop by one to 19 minutes...
...will fall flat-and a few are quietly hoping it will, since Heineman is not one of their up-from-the-roundhouse breed. The son of a wealthy Wausau, Wis. lumberman who went broke in the Depression, Heineman studied law at Northwestern University ('36), set up practice in Chicago. In 1954, invited in by dissident investors, he won an acrimonious proxy war for control of the little Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, boosted earnings fast. In 1956, with one-third of its stock in his control, Heineman went after the much bigger but shaky North Western, was invited...