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Rain on the Roof. In Fresno, Calif., three boys hurled stones at the Fresno Hacienda Motel from a highway overpass, were swiftly taken into custody by members of the State Juvenile Officers Association attending a convention in the motel...
...weeks earlier, on Dec. 21, North and Boyden were killed instantly near Goshen, Ind., when the car in which they were riding collided unavoidably with two trucks on the brow of a New York Central overpass. John Fell Stevenson '58, of Leverett House and Libertyville, III., driver of the car, suffered severe face cuts and a broken right kneecap. Doctors said yesterday at Chicago's Passavant Hospital, where Stevenson is confined in a wheelchair, that his progress was "fine." His return to Cambridge is as yet indefinite...
...Guglielmo, would solve this by making the Yard into a traffic circle. He would divert all Arlington-bound traffic through Quincy street, thereby reversing its present direction and make Massachusetts Ave. one way Bostonward. Morton suggests that this plan would also require building an unsightly overpass for freshmen on their way to Union meals, since they might have trouble battling the madding crowd of mechanized citizens on the ground level...
...soaked waste rags. The lights were lighted again." After 44 days, the U.A.W. won the strike, organized General Motors and within a year had 400 contracts covering most carmakers, except, notably. Ford (where company police beat up Reuther and his associates during 1937's "Battle of the Overpass"). In 1941, with war production booming, Ford capitulated after a ten-day strike. Ever since then, the U.A.W. has been virtually unchallenged in its control of automobile labor. In postwar strikes, the automakers never even tried to keep open. Despite - or because of - his trip to Russia, Reuther has a good...
...clock one bitter cold morning in Chicago last week, a deafening din arose from the Illinois Central Railroad's yards. Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns like dying cows. From a smoke-grimed overpass, Illinois' Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, who had set off the bedlam by tugging the rope of an old dismantled locomotive bell, cried gleefully: "There are a hundred trains here, and I bet every one of them is late!" Just as gleefully, Illinois Central's President Wayne Johnston cried back: "I'll bet they...