Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing of going to sea occurred that night: just a few hours after all that junk of bars, fighting, streets, subways, boom, there I am standing by the whipping shrouds and snapping lines in the Atlantic Ocean in the night off New Jersey, we're sailing south to Norfolk to load on for Italy, everything is washed away by the clean sea . . . The stars are big, they rock side by side like Galileo drunk and Kepler stoned and Copernicus thinking, like Vasco da Gama in his bunk in thought, the wind, the cleanness, the dark, the quiet blue light...
Saunders moved into the chairman's suite at Pennsy's Philadelphia headquarters only four years ago. He brought with him the bright reputation he had built as president of the Norfolk & Western, which he helped turn into one of the nation's most profitable railroads. He also brought a consuming energy that threatened to wear out associates. For he is a man who dotes on work. An average day includes twelve hours at the office, another three working at home-after which Saunders relaxes with a vengeance. He ordinarily takes a couple of double martinis before dinner...
...nothing new (see map). But the plans for the Penn Central were the most am bitious yet. As Saunders promoted them, his tireless determination seemed to promise eventual success. Inevitably, it gave new impetus to a growing roster of other corporate unions: ¶ In the East, the coal-rich Norfolk & Western and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio are moving toward a merger that will probably be consummated some time in 1970. The C. & O. took effective control of the B. & O. five years ago in a move that enabled the limping B. & O. to use C. & O. credit ratings...
Sustained Sentiment. The man who is slated to preside over the Penn Central, fittingly enough, is the man who started the merger trend. It was Saunders, as president of the Norfolk & Western, who arranged for the takeover of the Virginian Railway in 1959 and laid the groundwork for the N. & W. to acquire the Nickel Plate and the Wabash. Born in McDowell, W. Va., Saunders grew up in Bedford, Va., within sight and sound of the N. & W.'s main line through the coal fields. He attended college in the town where the N. & W. has its headquarters. Even...
THELMA A. JONES Norfolk...