Word: haplessness
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...where it could have happened, but it was certainly the most likely. Last week Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner swept to a landslide Democratic primary victory at the head of a reform slate sworn to clean up the municipal mess that had grown up during Wagner's own eight hapless years in office. Wagner won by 160,000 votes over State Controller Arthur Levitt, the candidate of New York City's regular Democratic organization. And in the process of rolling up that plurality, Wagner dealt a mortal blow to the bosses who had twice previously helped him get elected...
...five years that he was president of the hapless New Haven Railroad, Boston Attorney George Alpert moved up and down the land preaching that only Government subsidies could save the nation's railroad passenger operations from extinction. The Interstate Commerce Commission, historically opposed to rail subsidies, pretended not to hear. But last week, with the New Haven in bankruptcy and Alpert back at lawyering, the ICC did a roundhouse turn. After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer. Testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee...
...continuance of money-losing passenger and commuter runs hurts the most, the 40 major roads actually rolled $110 million in the red in the first half of 1961. Overall, the 107 Class One U.S. railroads last year earned barely 2% on invested capital-less than during Depression years. The hapless New York, New Haven & Hartford is already in bankruptcy. And President Alfred Perlman of the giant New York Central predicts a similar fate for his line unless it is permitted to merge into an even larger Eastern system...
...four games against the hapless Chicago White Sox, the Yankees scored 26 runs, all but eight of them on home runs. In the opening doubleheader, Roger Maris hit four homers, took over the league leadership (with 40) from Teammate Mickey Mantle (who hit two in three days) and spurted 22 games ahead of Babe Ruth's record 1927 pace. Second-string Yankee Catcher Johnny Blanchard tied a major-league record by hitting four consecutive homers, and even Third Baseman Cletis Boyer (batting average: .231) hit three in two games. Moaned beleaguered Chicago Manager Al Lopez: "I think the fans...
...personally have close ties with this city." After touring the city, Adenauer called a huge press conference, took pointed notice of the spate of refugees. "There seems to be a growing panic in the Soviet zone," declared the doughty old Chancellor, suggesting that West Germany might soon offer the hapless East German people 5,000 tons of butter to raise their ration. "The latest in a series of Western provocations," sputtered East Berlin's Neues Deutschland...