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...Bundesbahn's 470,000 employees, President Heinz Maria Oeftering, 60, a Munich-born onetime law professor, blames the loss not on the expensive extra service but on the "wholly extraneous expenditures" that the government makes the railroad bear. Although its long-haul passenger trains make money and lucrative freight accounts form 60% of its revenues, the Bundesbahn has to carry such privileged patrons as commuters, students, workers and war veterans at government-dictated cut rates (up to 96% off). An even greater drain is its welfare costs: 40% of salaries for pensions v. a German norm...
...every fire hydrant from Nova Scotia to wherever he was born be froze up. Let muddy water run in his grave. Let lightning strike in his heart and make him so ugly that he'll resemble a gorilla sucking hot Chinese mustard lying across a railroad track with freight trains running across his kneecaps. And if that's not bad enough, let him wake up tomorrow morning-black like...
...take over the Nickel Plate, the Wabash and three connecting roads. After more than two years of study, the ICC last week voted 10 to 1 to give its go-ahead to the merger. With that decision, the way was opened for the creation of a 7,450-mile freight superline whose routes would reach west to Missouri and north into Canada, save the two lines $27 million in costs each year. Railroaders saw in the ICC decision a far grander design: the reconstruction of the entire Eastern rail system into a strong regional network...
...Canadian National. But Crump steadily picked up momentum, has become a hard man to brake. He has entirely dieselized the road, shorn off many of its unprofitable branch lines and short-haul passenger trains, aggressively adopted piggybacking and bought the world's largest railroad-owned computer to direct freight and handle accounting. Result: in 1963's expanding economy, after a monotonous downgrade run, C.P.R.'s earnings rose 24% to $40.1 million, the highest since 1957. Canadian Pacific Airlines also broke through the profit barrier to earn $350,000 in 1963 largely because of a wise investment...
...despite this freight of handicaps, Molly does not go under-mainly because of Debbie Reynolds. Having browbeaten MGM's executives into letting her play the part-a plum better suited, they thought, to Shirley MacLaine-Debbie Mollyfies the audience with all the raucous charm and irrepressible high spirits of a girl who is out to win the Derby astride a dead horse. As a comedienne, she spurns subtlety but makes the shortcoming seem a solid gold asset in a character who boasts: "I'm a vulgar, extravagant nouveau riche American!" She even works slick, if slightly unnerving, pathos...