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...train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out???including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...
Rushed Ice. At many of the city's hospitals, auxiliary generators quickly conked out???or were not available to begin with. At Bellevue, sewage began to back up into the basement when pumps failed, finally reached a level of H in. Police, firemen and volunteers rushed dry ice to hospitals to keep stored blood from spoiling, sent generators to those that needed them, rigged electrical heart-pacer machines to auxiliary power, and hand-pumped iron lungs. A delicate corneal transplant, a five-hour craniotomy, and a caesarean section were performed under light from makeshift sources; five dozen babies were delivered...
Monk was back in the Bentley when the cops arrived, and he held fast to the steering wheel when they tried to pull him out???on the Monkish ground that he had done nothing to deserve their attention. Even though the baroness shrieked to watch out for his hands, the furious cops gave his knuckles such a beating that he bears the lumps to this day. The baroness took the rap for "some loose marijuana" found in the trunk, but after three years' legal maneuvering she was acquitted. No narcotics charges were placed against Monk, but because of the scandal...
...office Townsend is a brusque, blunt executive who would rather duck into a man's office for a talk than use the telephone. With Townsend, says one hardworking Chrysler official, "the needle is always out???but always in good humor." Says Chairman George Love: "He has the rare capacity to persuade his associates to express opinions contrary to his own." Adds Love of his own relationship with Townsend: "Let's say Townsend has an uncle?an uncle with some experience m managing a pretty tough coal business. This uncle is looking over his nephew's shoulder because the uncle...
...larger cities, editorially competitive morning and evening papers sometimes cut costs by sharing the same mechanical plant, the same advertising, circulation and distribution departments. Frequently, the stronger of two papers in a big city buys the weaker one out???a device that Newhouse has used many times. William Randolph Hearst Jr., editor in chief of the Hearst papers, has estimated that if a competitive morning and evening paper each clears $100,000 in annual profit, under the same management they net not $200,000 a year but $500,000. Hearst is presently testing this formula in San Francisco, where...