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...featherbeds are unlikely to be shaken out overnight. Also chronic are other rail troubles-the competition of trucks, the shift to air and auto travel. The railroads look to mergers...
...light-made by E.G. & G.-will be visible from outer space for ground observers to track. The capriciousness of Government contracting can be costly for a small company; in 1958, after the U.S. declared a moratorium on nuclear tests, E.G. & G.'s contract with the AEC was slashed overnight from $5,000,000 to $1,250,000. Today, with tests resumed, E.G. & G. is booming. Says Vice President Grier: "People like us are going to be in style a long, long time. The country is committed now to being prepared...
...After 18 months in the presidency, during which he has suffered as many downs as ups, the President these days looks cool, controlled and relaxed. Those who see him regularly think he has tempered his anguish at being unable to remake the nation, or to win over Harry Byrd, overnight. But they report him far from resigned to the way Congress has cut up his domestic program...
...society that tends to judge who a man is by what he does, the vigorous oldster suffers a special stress. Says Boston Gerontologist Natalie Cabot: "Nobody ever suddenly becomes Negro or Jewish, but people do suddenly become retired. They become a minority almost overnight, and it hits them hard, usually within the first three weeks." A retired man finds himself not only without a job but without an "identification tag'': someone accustomed to thinking of himself as a railroad man or an insurance executive is often seriously disoriented when he finds that he is no longer anything...
...when he bought Syracuse's two evening papers, the Herald and the Journal, both were losing money?$450,000 the year before. Overnight, Newhouse changed the loss to profit. To get full city coverage, Syracuse advertisers had been compelled to buy space in both evening papers, at a retail rate of 10^ a line in each. Newhouse merged the two papers, retaining their best individual features. Then he raised the Her aid-Journal's retail ad rate to 13¢ a line. Merchants responded to the bargain, and retail ad sales rose nearly $1,000,000 the first year...