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...chaos any longer. A few people refusing to leave a train can delay thousands." Detrainment, as he called the ejection of passengers, could not be avoided.* All this was shocking news to Londoners, long proud of the Underground's superiority to the New York subway and Paris Metro...
...second impression came as he landed in Leningrad late in the afternoon, before the street lights were turned on, when the town was a dark gray. "The workers emerged from the metro and entered their cracker-box houses looking like small ants," he observed...
...sees the humor of a situation-or vice versa. One moment, for example, the audience is snickering at a dumb chorine, and the next it is staring aghast at her lifeless body in a bathtub that seems at first glance to be full of raspberry soda-very picturesque in Metro-color. And during a mob war, when a punk catches a packet, does he do the conventional clutch-and-crumple? Not at all. He explodes in the moviegoer's face like a ripe tomato-quite a bit of business in fast motion...
Obligingly had Florida's Bade County Metro Commission voted to legalize gambling in the Miami area after ex-Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey, 63. now a heavy 250 or so, stepped up to say that he and some Manhattan backers had $1,000.-ooo to open a casino. But both Bade and Bempsey went down for the count when word of the project reached Governor...
...Hired as Metro manager to bring the new super-city government's power to bear on such decisions: San Diego City Manager O. W. Campbell, 52, public-administration specialist. Picked by the five-man Metro commission-i.e., the old county commission with its administrative authority delegated to the manager-"Hump" Campbell went on the payroll at $35,000 a year, highest paid public official in the state. A determined man, he efficiently attacked the county's "wasteful, sprawling monstrosity incapable of rendering efficient and economical service." He streamlined the 35 old departments down to 17, economized...