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King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were so pleased with the Hudson locomotive on the train that carried them across Canada on their 1939 royal tour that they granted the title Royal to a group of Hudson locomotives. One of these, Locomotive 2860, traveled proudly through British Columbia for 16 years before it was forced off the tracks by diesel engines. Rescued from the Winnipeg scrap yards by the government of British Columbia, 2860 was refurbished in 1974 and is now the only steam engine in regular mainline service in North America. Tom Savio, a former stationmaster...
...Dole survived the battlefields of Italy during World War II, but he almost didn't make it out of Los Angeles International Airport last year. It was a clear November evening when the former Senator and his wife Elizabeth were settled comfortably into first class on a United Airlines flight to Washington. The 757 began its rapid roll to take off. Moments before, an AeroMexico jet had mistakenly begun to cross that very runway on its way to the terminal. As the United plane hurtled down the tarmac, the pilots were startled to see the AeroMexico plane wandering into their...
...restricting the number of flights per hour would probably prove effective--and expensive. It comes down, says Air Safety Week editor David Evans, to "the classic tension between economics and safety." In this trade-off, there's a lot to be said for safety. Just ask Bob and Elizabeth Dole...
Luckily, administrators such as Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper, Harvard's vice-president for finance, recognize the frustrations and inefficiencies that a lack of communication can cause. Low morale and inter-administration enmities can be as much of a barrier to productivity as poor software. The efforts to meet with the faculties, especially the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, should be accelerated, especially before the next stage of Project ADAPT begins. The system should not be given responsibility for handling human resources information without a general consensus among the faculties that they are comfortable with the project and are ready...
...makes me very sad. I cannot imagine any other woman of my generation who wouldn't feel the same way," said Elizabeth R. Fishel...