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Oldtime railway executives hooted when Washington Attorney Eugene Garfield bought some railroad cars and rolled out the Auto-Train a year ago. After all, everybody knows that passenger trains are unprofitable and unpopular. Who would want to pay to haul his automobile along with his family by rail from the Washington area to northern Florida? The answer is that 157,329 travelers have wanted to-so far. As the Auto-Train Corp. closed its books on its first year last week, the company's annual revenues were running around $11 million, and in the past six months after...
...ride in reclining chairs in domed coaches, see up to two free movies and eat two free meals. The menu frequently includes such dishes as chicken kiev, veal parmesan and ham with pineapple sauce. "We try to make each trip seem like a visit to a resort hotel," says Garfield, the chief executive, who has made a paper profit of some $3,420,000 on his stock in the company during the past year...
Because the train is often booked well in advance, Garfield plans to add a second train on the Lorton-to-Sanford run. In addition, he is considering putting on a train from Cincinnati to Florida. With that, travelers from the Midwest can drive to Cincinnati and load themselves and their cars on a train, and avoid the high cost of renting a car during the peak seasons in Florida...
...government has arrested more than 1,500 people in the past six weeks. It has placed in detention without trial four well-known critics of Smith's regime-two blacks, African Politician Josiah Chinamano and his wife, and two whites, Southern Rhodesia's onetime Prime Minister Garfield Todd and his daughter Judith. Last week the regime bowed to British pressure by transferring the Todds from prison to house arrest on their ranch near Shabani; it also moved the Chinamanos to house arrest at an undisclosed location...
After the start of rioting, the government arrested more than 200 Africans on various charges. It also picked up Garfield Todd, the widely respected former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, and his daughter Judith, 29, and imprisoned them under the preventive-detention law. Their only offense appeared to have been their outspoken opposition to the proposed settlement...