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Even ICC members and railroaders agree that both formula and figures are far out of line. Fortnight ago Northwestern University's Transportation Professor Stanley Berge published a study that flatly calls the passenger loss "a phantom deficit." According to Berge, the deficit "for the most part consists of costs which could not be avoided" even if the rails carried no passengers at all. The rails' $153,000-a-mile capital investments in bridges, yards, rails, for example, is needed for the freight traffic that accounts for 87% of the roads' revenue. Eliminating passenger traffic would therefore...
...York University's Ernest O. Melby, 64, for eleven years dean of the School of Education. A Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Melby rose from small-town teacher and school superintendent to be dean of Northwestern University's School of Education, president of Montana's State University, and finally, chancellor of Montana's higher educational system. But it was not until he got to N.Y.U. that he came into his own as a kind of senior defense counsel for the U.S. public school against those who insisted that it had sacrificed its intellectual content...
...summer, Author John (In Dubious Battle) Steinbeck was slightly worried at never having attended that sort of big political show. Last month Reporter Steinbeck, engaged to dope out the conventions for the Louisville Courier-Journal and some 25 other newspapers, sent a help-wanted letter to the dean of Northwestern University's School of Journalism, Kenneth E. Olson. Excerpts from his waggish call for the perfect legman: "I want a combination copy boy, telephone answerer, coffee maker ... an eavesdropper and Peeping Tom, a gossip and preferably a liar ... At the end of the [Chicago] convention he is finished, through...
...centuries India's Damodar River, meandering 340 miles through the northwestern hills to the sea, has been known as the "River of Sorrow." A plaything of the seasons, in summer's 120° heat the river dried to a trickle in a parched gulley. But in the monsoon, it became a raging torrent, scourging the Damodar Valley with malarial, crop-destroying floods. Last week the fickle Damodar could bear a new name: the River of Promise. Across its path stood three mighty dams, shunting water into irrigation ditches that will eventually reclaim 1,026,000 acres of wasteland...
...trouble before, decided in his desperation to rob a bank. He stole a set of license tags, bought a shotgun and sawed it off, drove 70 miles to Ulen, Minn., a town he had never seen. In raincoat and hat bought as a disguise, he tramped into the tiny Northwestern State Bank twice to case it, nervously returned a third time with the shotgun. He ordered Assistant Cashier Paul Ormbreck to stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty rags. Richter returned...