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...military adviser, General Maxwell D. Taylor, on a hurry-up tour of U.S. military installations that would be involved if Cuban trouble flared up: the Panama Canal Zone, the new Strike Command headquarters at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base, and the Atlantic Fleet Headquarters at Norfolk...
...rich and well-run CHESAPEAKE & OHIO for control of the anemic BALTIMORE & OHIO. The other-designed to compete against a possible C & 0 -B & O system-is the proposal of the efficient coal-hauling NORFOLK & WESTERN to take over the NICKEL PLATE and then to lease the WABASH to form a 7,400-mile superfreight line with routes west into Missouri and north into Canada. The N. & W. proposal awaits an examiner's report; the C & O bid has won an examiner's approval. The final word is up to the ICC commissioners...
...spent on debate. In frantic attempts to muster a quorum on a summer Saturday, Senate Democratic leaders summoned Senators to Washington from as far away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under arrest and bring them to the chamber. The quorum was achieved only at 3 p.m., five hours...
...bowed out as head of a Class I U.S. railroad for the fourth time in ten years. But in surrendering his job as chief executive of the 127-year-old Boston & Maine, the hotspur of U.S. railroading at least set a refreshing precedent. On previous occasions-aboard the Norfolk Southern, the Central of Georgia and the New Haven-McGinnis was tossed out by angry stockholders. At the B. & M. he decided to move up to chairman on his own hook...
...chairman-at a $44,000 salary cut-to put all his time, and his experience as a longtime Wall Street expert on bankrupt railroads, into finding one. McGinnis would first like to merge the B. & M. with the Delaware & Hudson, with which it connects, and then with the booming Norfolk & Western. This arrangement would eliminate much of the $7,000,000 a year that the B. & M.. as a terminal line, pays other railroads in freight car charges...