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...zero cold froze engines and switches, the New York Central, the New Haven, the Erie and many other commuter lines ran hours late. Trains loaded with commuters got stalled in the fields, and rescue trains sent out after them got stalled too. The New York Central reported its long-haul trains running between New York and Chicago as much as 20 hours late. Each delay produced a paralyzing chain reaction. The day after the storm, a collision between two empty trains on the New Haven near Port Chester, N.Y. held up 15 following trains, packed with 3,000 commuters...
...have ever gone through so much ferment in so short a time as Turkey did in the years following the ouster of the Greeks and the end of the 600-year-old Turkish sultanate. Blindly bent on lifting his countrymen from Ottoman medievalism to Western modernity in one short haul, Ataturk converted Turkey into a facsimile of a parliamentary republic, fought an unending battle to break the influence of the Moslem clergy. Under his tireless prodding, Turks found themselves obeying not Islamic law but the Swiss Civil Code, writing not in Arabic script but a new Romanized alphabet, wearing...
...save enough money to buy eight mules and a partnership with a go-ahead drayman. Even then, Vaselli had one overriding maxim: "Never spend in a month more than you make in a week." By this Spartan pecuniary principle, Vaselli waxed rich before World War I, contracting to haul away the garbage that householders had been tossing into Rome's fly-fouled streets...
...Clean Haul. In Washington, D.C., Laundry Truck Driver Howard Henry Coleman, 28, arrested for stealing three tons of hotel and restaurant tablecloths and selling them to junk dealers as old rags, explained: "I only took the really dirty ones...
...military establishment. Wilson's five-year tenure covered half the life span of the Defense Department, and his heavy thumb left the biggest print. When Wilson came to Washington the Korean war was about over, and his first big job was to convert to the long-haul New Look. He cut manpower, substituted the firepower of increasingly plentiful nuclear weapons, and it is Charlie Wilson's monument that he maintained an effective force-in-being that kept the peace for five rough years...