Word: freights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These rotten little kids are meant to carry the freight of the novel's frenzied bully-boy philosophy. In this hapless screen translation by Lewis John Carlino (a scenarist making his directorial debut), they just come off looking like second-class citizens of The Village of the Damned. Fortunately, it is impossible to take the movie seriously on any level. A film maker who uses pounding pistons and dripping hoses for phallic symbols is a threat only to himself...
...newcomers for plainclothes security forces, the guerrillas immediately opened fire, killing three male cyclists and wounding their 19-year-old woman companion. At the same time, the guerrillas detonated a grenade atop a land mine placed under the tracks of the Rhodesia-South Africa railroad-just as a freight train was passing. The blast derailed the train and destroyed a section of the track. Three days later, terrorists fired at a farmer in a passing car, wounding him in the shoulder...
...predicted that the U.R.W. would win a 41% wage-and-benefits increase over three years. If that happens, the brokerage firm calculates, tire prices will rise 6% this year and 3% in each of the next two years. The Interstate Commerce Commission last week approved a 6% increase in freight rates that truck lines had requested in anticipation of a fat Teamsters contract; the truckers are expected to ask for another 7% to 8% next year. The C.P.I, rose at an annual rate of only 2.4% in March, but nobody expects the rate to stay that low. If wages push...
...appearance has changed, his music is still pretty much what he's been doing all these years. It still has that earthy, drunken, rambunctious quality, that good-natured humor and fun-loving exuberance and that same rough, sunburned voice. He may not hop freight trains anymore--maybe he never did--but he probably still gets an urge now and then to go runnin' naked through that hill country rain...
Unscrambled Routes. A new federal agency, the U.S. Railway Association, has tailored ConRail to make the best of this difficult situation. U.S.R.A. planners first unscrambled a spaghetti-like jumble of freight routes to find the combination with the most profit potential. That meant abandoning 3,000 track miles completely and operating another 3,000 miles of lightly used track only with Government subsidies. Next the planners got Congress to approve $2.1 billion in federal loans; that money, with another $4.7 billion in expected revenues, will be used over the next decade to upgrade tracks and buy new trains. Because ConRail...