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...Chesapeake & Ohio and the Baltimore & Ohio, which together will form an 11,000-mile system stretching through the East and Midwest. A few days later, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved plans for the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Railroad, long fierce rivals, to join. The 12,300-mile linkup, stretching through the Southeast from Florida to Virginia, will make the new road the second longest in the U.S. (after the Santa Fe's 12,900 miles...
...criminal-hero marked for destruction is a tight-lipped swaggering cock of the prison walk named Johnny Bannion (Stanley Baker). Even Chief Warder Barrows (Patrick Magee) caters to Bannion. Indeed, Losey's knowing development of the prison's internal and external linkup of influence peddling helps to strengthen his portrait of the criminal's hermetically sealed environment...
...Moslem converts, the troubled West may be grateful to Madrid. Star of the traveling troupe: Franco's only daughter, pretty, strong-willed Marquesa Carmencita de Villaverde, who received medals, teetered over Jerusalem's cobblestones in high-heeled shoes, and inaugurated the first direct Beirut-Madrid phone linkup by chatting for 20 minutes with...
Marshal Fyodor Tolbukhin, commander of the Third Ukrainian Army, made a bear of a speech at a vodka-and-compliments party celebrating a Russian-American linkup. After praising American womanhood for its part in the war, he spied in a corner a uniformed American girl. The Marshal flamboyantly removed a ribbon from his tunic, pinned it on the American working girl. She was Doris Duke Cromwell...
Nazi Germany was finished. Nevertheless, despite peace feelers put out by Heinrich Himmler, despite the death throes of Berlin, despite revolution in Munich, cradle city of Naziism, despite the U.S.-Russian linkup, which cut the mortally wounded monster in two, some thousands of German fanatics stared blindly ahead and still had the will to fire another useless shot...