Word: commissioner
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By week's end the toll had risen to 48 dead, some 50 injured. And the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission belatedly ordered ''dead man" devices-which automatically halt a train when the engineer relaxes control-installed on all passenger trains.
Hired as Metro manager to bring the new super-city government's power to bear on such decisions: San Diego City Manager O. W. Campbell, 52, public-administration specialist. Picked by the five-man Metro commission-i.e., the old county commission with its administrative authority delegated to the...
END OF RAIL TRAVEL by 1970 is predicted by ICC Examiner Howard Hosmer, head of commission's investigation into rail passenger problems. He says that if passenger drop continues as expected, all Pullman service will be out by 1965, all coach service by 1970, and commuter trains will go...
Mild-mannered Tom Stanley reacted temperately. "This news." he said, "calls for cool heads, calm study and sound judgment." He promised to set up a commission to work toward a plan "in keeping with the edict of the court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited...
Fatal Flaw. The Gray Commission came up with a plan aimed at starving integration to death. It proposed that