Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near Munich that had formerly served as headquarters of Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. There, behind double rows of concrete walls and steel fences, Gehlen plotted some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. He recruited agents throughout Eastern Europe, even had a minister in the East German government in his employ, smashed a Czech-run spy ring in West Germany and provided the West with a realistic assessment of Soviet power that helped the U.S. to call Soviet bluffs over Berlin. The Central Intelligence Agency regarded Gehlen as one of its best investments...
...conveying the nuances of national mood; after a swing around the U.S. last November, when polls showed presidential popularity low and dropping, he concluded that there was unrest and a yearning for strong leadership but also an undercurrent of sympathy for the President. Smith Hempstone covered the Middle East war with lyrical intensity, highlighting particularly the plight of the Arab victims. Political Writer Paul Hope showed a keen eye for detail as he followed George Romney around New Hampshire and found some surprising pockets of support for the governor...
...among U.S. railroads is nothing new (see map). But the plans for the Penn Central were the most am bitious yet. As Saunders promoted them, his tireless determination seemed to promise eventual success. Inevitably, it gave new impetus to a growing roster of other corporate unions: ¶ In the East, the coal-rich Norfolk & Western and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio are moving toward a merger that will probably be consummated some time in 1970. The C. & O. took effective control of the B. & O. five years ago in a move that enabled the limping...
...much more than change menus. Besides making huge investments in equipment and rolling stock, he really began to diversify. He concluded the purchase of the Buckeye pipeline, which threads for 8,000 miles through eight states in the East and South. Today, Buckeye ownership makes the railroad the principal supplier of jet fuel to Kennedy International Airport through a pipeline laid under New York harbor. Already well-stocked with real estate through its rail-related holdings, the Pennsy spent some $80 million to get more. It bought into Arvida Corp., Great Southwest Corp. and Macco Realty Co., which deal...
...merger talks had started between Saunders' Pennsy predecessor, James M. Symes, and the Central's Robert Young. Then, after Young committed suicide in 1959, he was succeeded at the Central by Perlman, an M.I.T. graduate who was with the Denver & Rio Grande before Young brought him back East. As it happened, Perlman was most reluctant to couple with the Pennsy, and Saunders had a tough time persuading him that it would be a good deal for both companies...