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THREE-WAY MERGER TALKS are going on among New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, and Chesapeake & Ohio. Union of three would create a 25,000-mile, $4 billion empire, biggest in U.S. It would also be defensive move against merger being discussed between Norfolk & Western and Nickel Plate. N. & W. is one-third owned by Pennsylvania R.R., which is now biggest U.S. railroad...
...Coming up to drive, the women players would chuckle at the kid, then look with dismay toward the drainage ditch that lay 120 yards down the fairway. At that point, Arnie would make a sound business offer: "I'll knock your ball over the ditch for a nickel...
...tossed around vague charges that Skousen had been "insubordinate," but Skousen's real offense seemed to be that he had failed to show enough enthusiasm for Lee's determination to slash the police-department budget. Any interference with his nickel-nipping crusades stirs J. Bracken Lee, 61, to fuming anger. Sometime Republican Governor of Utah (1949-57), Lee ranks high among the obsessive budget-cutters of U.S. politics, keeps on his desk a paperweight inscribed G-D-TAXES. Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has, among other things: ¶ Refused to pay a $29,000 bill...
...that Bomarc's test failures would delay its operational status until too near the end of the diminishing bomber era, proposed a sweeping switch in spending to other defensive hardware (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the past, Diefenbaker had properly insisted that all Bomarc's failures were minor "nickel-and-dime" malfunctions, and pointed out that the U.S. was spending $500 million on it this year, while Canada had committed only $15 million for work on its two bases...
...Black: "I have found that there is a tremendous joy in giving. It is a very important part of the joy of living." Brooklyn-born Bill Black had no such joys when he worked his way through Columbia by loading potatoes in a waterfront market. He could barely afford nickel meals of bread pudding. But after graduation (1920), he took to selling nuts in a cubbyhole Times Square shop, soon had 18 stores. When the Depression killed nut sales, Black shrewdly converted the stores to lunch bars, featuring coffee and nutted-cheese sandwiches. Today his 28 New York-area restaurants...