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...This cold front is a pretty slow ther Bureau. It will hang over the mover," said the man from the Wea-Hub like a dark gray cloud all through...
Died. Leonard Florsheim, 84, Chicago transportation tycoon, one of the founders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and a scion of the Florsheim shoe family who, with his friend John Hertz, founded the Yellow Cab Co., Chicago Motor Coach Co. (the hub of the Chicago Transit Authority's bus routes) and the Omnibus Corp., later to become the Hertz Corp.; after a long illness; in Chicago...
...crowd scenes, never moving bunches of people about aimlessly or frantically. Like the great film directors, D. W. Griffith and Eisenstein, he achieves compositions of masses in motion that have esthetic force and balance. When the soldiers circle their king, they are humble spokes of fealty wheeling around the hub of majesty. Men wounded and dying are draped onstage with the comely anguish of Pietàs of the battlefield...
...Hub. For Norfolk, the bridge-tunnel is only a spectacular addition to its redevelopment program, which will be complete in another five years. Already the results are impressive. More than 181 acres of slums, amounting to roughly 85% of Norfolk's whole downtown area, have been knocked down and replaced with some $42 million worth of new buildings. Last week plans for a $100 million medical center were announced. A grassed and tree-lined pedestrian mall has replaced Main Street. The world's largest coal-loading dock has been built by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and savings...
...flying stone. And less than two hours after that, an empty El Al Airlines Boeing 707-420, being ferried from Philadelphia by a five-man Israeli crew, skidded 200 ft. beyond the end of its 8,000-ft. runway at Kennedy and slushed to a stop hub-deep in soft sand...