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...Approaching Norfolk, a Capital Airlines Viscount crashed almost vertically into a stream near Williamsburg, Va. Dead on impact...
While Government and industry spokesmen worried on about how to solve the crucial problems of the nation's railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week took some levelheaded action. By unanimous vote, ICC approved the merger of two major Eastern seaboard soft-coal carriers, Norfolk & Western and the Virginian, allowed them to form a single system with assets of $970 million and 2,746 miles of track serving six states (see map). It was the biggest consolidation of two independent lines since ICC was formed in 1887, and one that President Stuart T. Saunders, who remains as boss...
...lines were not, in ICC's words, "in the public interest." Merged, they will economize by consolidating managements and by using the Virginian's better tracks eastward over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge Mountains. The Virginian's coal piers and marshaling yard adjacent to the Norfolk Navy Base will probably be put up for sale. Estimated saving from the elimination of duplicate facilities and services: $1,000,000 per month...
...Norfolk Island, Australian Territory
...Norfolk-jacketed colonel, clipped of mustache and clipped of accent, bumped into the grand lady who of course turned out to be his long-lost love. As the two bodies collided, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture suddenly thundered of pain and passion. "I say," muttered the colonel. "You seem to have turned on my transistor radio...