Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn, have fueled the railroads' drive to diversify-if the Government eases up-into related areas of transportation. The Missouri Pacific, which already owns two truck lines extending 17,000 miles, last week applied to the CAB for permission to start an air-freight service. Says W. Graham Claytor Jr., new president of the Southern: "The railroads must press hard for the right to sell transportation, not railroad service. Then they must supply it in the most economical form suited to the customer's needs, including in many cases a combination of highway, rail, water and even...
...receives up to 15 "major" requests for help each week. They come from adversaries of imminent threats, such as a freeway that would desecrate the waterfront of New Orleans' Vieux Carré, and advocates of quixotic quests, such as preserving the Warrensburg, Mo., courthouse, where in 1870 George Graham Vest voiced his Eulogy...
...chassis (total weight, with engine: 1,102 Ibs.) that A. J. Foyt, last year's Indy 500 winner (in a Ford-powered special), says: "I wouldn't be caught dead in it; and if I ever did get in it, I probably would be." Britain's Graham Hill, who drove another Lotus 49 to second place in the 204-mi. South African Grand Prix, says: "You have to keep tabs on the car. You can't let it get away from...
This film represents a unique opportunity for Americans to see what goes on in North Vietnam. Greene is a British subject (a cousin of the novelist Graham Greene) who has lived in the United States for the past two decades. Since he made his first trip to China in 1956, he has had a rare entre into the world of Asian Communism. He and Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett seem to have cornered the market for providing the "other side" of the story to the West. It makes for interesting education...
...campus politician was asked by Graham, who had just been appointed to fill a vacancy as U.S. Senator from North Carolina, to be his legislative assistant after his graduation in 1949 at the age of 20. Lowenstein remembers coming into contact with another freshman Democratic Senator during the fall of 1949, Lyndon Baines Johnson...