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...commuter trains in Massachusetts. The New York, Susquehanna & Western wants to do away with all passenger service-as more than a dozen other U.S. railroads have done since 1950. The New Haven has dropped its Old Colony road to Boston's South Shore and Cape Cod, the Central its Putnam division in Westchester County and West Shore line in New Jersey and New York. Boston and Maine's President Patrick B. McGinnis, who was washed out as boss of the New Haven in 1956 in a torrent of commuter complaint, has not improved his reputation by selling...
...relaxed, cordial, full of a dry wit. He speaks with a Tennessee drawi. talks about mules as easily as about the national debt. While J. P. Morgan roamed the world in his 302-ft. yacht Corsair, Alexander's yacht is a loft. dinghy moored at his Cape Cod summer home. While Morgan traveled in private railway cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief delight is to get out in the country, climb onto a tractor to harrow...
...worked (1919) at nights as a die reamer for a subsidiary of U.S. Steel in Worcester, rose to be president of American Steel and Wire Division (1953), executive vice president (1958); of a stroke following a knife wound, said to be accidental, at his summer cottage on Cape Cod; in Hyannis, Mass...
...main criterion for selecting a dumping spot is depth, with 1,000 fathoms (6,000 ft.) as a minimum. MSTS will drop its cargoes at points about 200 miles due east of Cape Cod, 105 miles south-southeast of Cape Henry, Va., 120 miles southeast of Sandy Hook, N.J., 240 miles southwest of Los Angeles and 150 miles west of San Francisco. Diving tests have shown that most of the hot material remains sealed off in the containers, but some leaks out, might yet show up in seafood. Oceanographers and marine biologists are studying the effects wrought on the radioactive...
...oceanographic trip. The student-scientists fraternized with Eskimos, exploded firecrackers in one another's beds, and otherwise acted their ages, but the Chance, loaded with real scientific apparatus, came back with useful data on the Labrador Current that chills the New England coast as far south as Cape Cod...