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...sunny morning last week, 2,890 miles, 35 hr. 53 min., and one $250 traffic ticket away from East Side Manhattan's Red Ball Garage, Rick Cline and Jack May parked their pockmarked white Ferrari Dino in front of the Portofino Inn in Southern California's Redondo Beach. Having shaved one minute from the previous transcontinental record, the partners became undisputed holders of the 1975 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash...
...cities. Between New York and Washington, for example, all freight traffic would be removed from the main Penn Central line to track now owned by other companies in order to make way for speedier, more frequent passenger service. New trains would make the 224-mile run in 2½ hr.-30 min. faster than the present Metroliners. The alternative to its plan, says the association, is nationalization of the seven roads that Conrail would...
...Lockheed, Johnson personally directed the design and production of 40 planes, including the first American combat jet (F-80), the U-2 spy plane and the Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) SR-71, which recently flew from New York to London in a record-breaking 1 hr. 55 min. As head of Lockheed's top-secret "Skunk Works" design shop, named after the foul-smelling factory in Li'l Abner, he also played a crucial role in developing spy satellites, electronic jamming and other cloak-and-dagger technologies...
...despite this overreach, a rather messy structure, and great length (3 hr...
Firing Line. Buckley and Edward M. Korry, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, discuss the CIA's role in Chilean politics. Ch. 2, 10 p.m. 1 hr...