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...plain fact is that the 13 struggling Eastern railroads can no longer survive without consolidation. Recognizing this, the ICC has already allowed the merger of the Chesapeake & Ohio with the Baltimore & Ohio, the Norfolk & Western with the Wabash and Nickel Plate. Even the bankrupt New Haven has found a partner. Two days after last week's Penn-Central finding, in accordance with the examiners' recommendation, the two roads agreed to take over the New Haven's red-ink freight business for $140 million in stock, bonds and cash. They want no part of its commuter business, which...
Such speeds were made possible by the invention in the early '30s of an aluminum-nickel-cobalt alloy known commercially as alnico, which has magnetic properties that enable the cars' tiny motors to rev up to as much as a staggering 25,000 r.p.m. They buzzed over from England to the U.S. about ten years ago, but only in the last year or so have they moved out of the hobby shops and the subteen set to become a full-scale way of life. Epicenter of the new wave is California, where there are now about 300 slot...
Turned On for Exams. Savvy students seem to have little trouble cultivating a "connection" to secure marijuana-most often in the form of a $5 "nickel box" (matchbox size)-in New York City, Harvard Square, California's Sausalito and elsewhere. Up to 40 "joints" (cigarettes) can be fashioned from a box, making marijuana cheaper per kick than alcohol...
...adherence to a chivalric code of honor. To be sure, lower class Negroes seldom speak of these standards; but when formal relations break down, they often exact irrational retribution for small offenses against these norms. Thus, two men drew knives when one accused the other of owing him a nickel. Neither backed down...
Amidst a terrible silence on a Saturday night they fought a duel without rules, until both were badly injured. Clearly the value of a nickel was not at stake, but rather honor and pride. To these men, to fight was the expected and manly solution...