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...expressed the fear that the merged companies would draw traffic away from the Chicago & North Western and the Milwaukee Road. Late last year, the commission reversed itself after the northern lines promised to give valuable track rights to the Milwaukee and mollified labor by agreeing to eliminate 4,511 excess employees by attrition over several years rather than dismissal. The chief executives of the carriers gathered in Manhattan to sign the consolidation papers last May. But only hours before they were to complete the formalities that would have created the Burlington Northern, Chief Justice Earl Warren abruptly halted the merger...
...truck manufacturers will produce a record 1,803,000 trucks and Jeeplike vehicles. Understandably, they are delighted about the present - a year of sales in excess of $4 billion-and see an even brighter future ahead. Said Ford President Semon Knudsen at the American Trucking Associations' convention last week: "We expect the total truck market to pass a 2,000,000 annual rate in the early 1970s and to reach...
...story tells about a Harlem group that is trying to bypass the city and organize a separate school district that will report directly to the state. Literary Critic Alfred Kazin contributes a whimsical appreciation of the Upper West Side: "Nowhere else I have ever lived is there such excess of money to comfort, of comfort to taste, of taste to safety." Above all, the Tribune plans to be a paper of investigation. For the first issue, a team of reporters did some comparison shopping and concluded that Harlem residents pay up to six times as much for prescription medicine...
...case, starting as a happily married, witty college professor, Tattersall explores the U.S. penchant for nerve-racking upward mobility by trying it in reverse. In an excess of whim and Weltschmerz, he runs through a job in advertising ("I stink, therefore I am"), a stint as a successful TV singer, and on down through door-to-door salesman, street peddler, gardener, handyman and tramp. He winds up living in a run-down tenement, selling canned "fresh air" door to door to help take care of a mumbling mongoloid boy and a drunken mongrel basset hound. One night he gets...
Barely a month after the launching of The First Circle (TIME cover, Sept. 27), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward has been published in an English translation. As a special kind of literary import, it stands partially obscured by the excess political baggage that has accompanied it. The kinds of labels inevitably suggested by the advance publicity are gross and distracting: savage expose of Stalinism; revealing political microcosm; old cold-war propaganda. The reader is thus challenged to slip past the luggage and the labels into the heart of the book...