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Long before he won control of the New York Central management, Robert R. Young liked to scourge the "goddamned bankers" and attack railroad operators while he championed the poor, neglected passengers. Crusader Bob's most effective ploy was a cartoon of a pig. fat and sassy in his freight car, looking down on a bedraggled, luggage-laden human traveler and his family changing trains. Hooted the ad: "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...
...West Shore line. The line meanders 142 miles along the Hudson between Weehawken (N.J.) and Albany (N.Y.), carries 4,000 commuters a day into Manhattan. According to Young, it is losing some $3.000,000 annually on passengers. At the meeting, a young matron strode determinedly onstage carrying a pig labeled "Young Bob." Beside her stood another flushed lady holding aloft a sign saying: "A hog will be able to ride the West Shore...
...story, a sort of musical cutoff on The Road to Rome, by Playwright Robert Sherwood, is an amiable bit of pig Latin. Esther is cast as Amytis, betrothed of Fabius Cunctator (George Sanders), the Roman dictator, in 216 B.C. But Esther is bored. Then all at once Hannibal (Howard Keel) crushes the Roman legions and marches on the city. "Ah," cries Esther, "wotta day!" She sneaks out to meet the enemy on her own terms. Hannibal orders her put to death. Esther takes off her cloak. He orders her put to bed. The tactical problems she presents are so engrossing...
...Soviet industry is lagging. Pig-iron prouction for 1954 was less than the planned figure, and rolled steel is in short supply. Production is below quota in all other metals, in oil, coal and timber...
...aimed at the natives. Often the activities of the "counter-terrorists," as they call themselves, are conducted with the tacit complicity of local cops, who have little patience with the slow-moving machinery of French justice. "What?" bellowed one indignant Casablanca policeman recently. "Arrest Frenchmen for killing these Moroccan pigs? They ought to be given the Legion of Honor." Seeing Nothing. Morocco's French-colonial vigilantes are largely concentrated in three small, tightly knit undercover groups: the White Hand, Agir (to act), and the more formally titled Organisation de Défense Anti-Terroriste. They meet in favorite bistros...