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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...
...Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer deserves to be in any list of Southern editors who have "preached moderation for many years" [March 19]. Nor should the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot-a Pulitzer winner for guiding school desegregation-be overlooked...
...military man in Norfolk wears three hats and controls one of the most complex and sensitive commands in the free world. A Navy officer, he is Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet, head of all U.S. naval ships and planes in the Atlantic. He is also Commander in Chief, Atlantic, boss of a unified command that gives him control of all U.S. troops in the Atlantic area. And he is Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic-NATO's top sailor-which means that he must be versed in diplomacy as well as war. To this demanding post, President Johnson has appointed Four...
...Anyone Can." Tom Moorer's promotion to Norfolk came as no surprise to his colleagues. Says Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific: "We've worked together for many years; he's a brilliant man. While he gets along so very well with everyone, you mustn't get the impression he's easygoing. He stands up for his programs, and he's very persuasive. If anyone can get along with De Gaulle...
...pageant honored Churchill; but Churchill also honored the pageant. For the occasion, directed in its inimitably British style by the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, consisted of a succession of crowns, swords, escutcheons, and every other encrustation of royal power-a power that is noble because it no longer rules but only inspires. In granting a royal funeral to a commoner, Britain expressed the fact that its trappings of autocracy have long ago been triumphantly absorbed by democracy-a pertinent fact in the 20th century...