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...about a year ago. The new rate of 1.5? per passenger-mile ($5.25 for a round-trip ticket) was 10% lower than bus fare. After bus companies also cut fares, Great Northern rolled out two brand-new, speedy diesel "Internationals" which lowered the train trip within a hairbreadth of plane time (including travel to and from the airport). Last week, Great Northern reported "phenomenal increase" in business. Ticket sales had shot up as high as 224% above 1949 and revenue was 156% more...
...shrillest charges of professional calamity howlers is that civil liberties are in danger in the U.S. Actually, no issue is more cherished by Americans-or more zealously guarded by the courts-than the rights of citizens under the law. But the line between liberty and license is often a hairbreadth...
Duke was soon careening around the turns at a hairbreadth 100 m.p.h., with Masetti just behind. On the tenth lap, Masetti gunned to the lead, scored the fastest round of the day: 118 m.p.h. But the effort burned him out. By the 16th lap, halfway through the 200-kilometer race, Duke regained the lead and began to widen the gap with each succeeding round. Four and a half miles from the finish, he was leading Masetti by almost two miles. That was when Giovanni Curli suddenly waved his big checkered flag, signaling the end of the race. Startled but obedient...
Died. Arthur Stringer, 76, tireless Canadian-born author; in Mountain Lakes, N.J. He wrote 50-odd novels bristling with danger and hairbreadth escapes; a dozen books of verse; plays; short stories; a biography of Poet Rupert Brooke; several volumes of Shakespeare criticism; the scenarios for The Perils of Pauline, the silent climax-a-week movie serial which made Heroine Pearl White rich and famous...
...decided to give up his House seat to run again for the Senate. He whirred across Texas by helicopter in a series of 18-hour campaigning days that won him a hairbreadth 87-vote margin over popular ex-Governor Coke Stevenson. Since then, he has been a loyal, but not unquestioning, supporter of the Fair Deal; when it came to voting on labor and civil-rights bills, he lined up with the coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats to help defeat the Administration program...