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...society grows more complex, said the 19-member commission* in a 36-page report, the challenge is to free every American mind to cope and choose wisely. "A man is free in the degree to which he has a rational grasp of himself and his surroundings. The main restrictions to freedom are prejudice and ignorance. It is in this sense that a person without some degree of intellectual sophistication, though he may be free to think, speak and act as he pleases, is not free." And such freedom is "beyond the maturity attained by most adolescents." They need at least...
Basie, 59, has been a big-band maestro for 28 years. Except for the brazenly modern harmonies and voicings of his new arrangements, the "Basie sound" has remained steadfastly the same all along. With Benny Goodman his main competition, Basie was a swing king in the '30s, and his style is still defiantly prewar. In the first years of bop, Basie was considered so sadly reactionary that his band endured a long eclipse. Then, after four years' touring with a small combo, Basie collected a new 16-piece ensemble in 1952, and within a year it was fully...
Linking North & South. Some lines prosper because of quirks of nature or of men. The biggest, busiest and most profitable of the bridge roads is the 129-year-old Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, whose 117-mile main line between Washington and Richmond-protected from competition in earlier decades by its part-owner, the state of Virginia-is still the only coastal link between North and South. All North-South traffic takes the R.F. & P.; over it daily thunder 23 passenger trains and ten freights bound from one to another of the six Class I roads (the Pennsy, the Southern...
...short lines go about it by specializing in such bulk commodities as grain or ore, servicing isolated factories, mines and installations that have been bypassed by the main lines. Most of them can survive because they carry no passengers, have comparatively low property valuations, few employees (some get by with a dozen) and small tax and debt loads. Many short lines are terminal or switching operations owned by bigger roads, or bridge lines that run between two big roads. But the short-haul roads, which perform on a small scale the same functions as the big lines, are the heart...
...their glamour and hustle, short lines will go on being short. Their less than 2% share of total rail revenues last year was a tiny tweet amid the mighty roar of the main lines. Mergers, of course, still take place. The Lehigh & Susquehanna disappeared last year into the Reading, and the Mohoning & Shenango into the New York Central. But one thing is certain: in 1964, the nation's short lines are too various, too scattered-and too content with their tiny place in the sun-for another Pennsy or Central ever to emerge from them...