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...exquisite spires and curved roofs of the city, prostitutes aboard pedicabs come silently out of the shadows like butterflies beckoning for attention. The bars close early and the streets are soon deserted. At Madam Chum's, a few bleary-eyed Westerners smoke away their despair for 600 per pipe of opium. Geckos croak in the darkness. The city is silent. What is going...
...Penn Central executives hastily presented the bankruptcy petition. The bankruptcy covers only the Penn Central Transportation Co. (1969 assets: $4.6 billion), which operated the railroad. Neither the parent Penn Central Co. nor the several solvent subsidiaries of the railroad corporation were immediately affected. Among the latter are the Buckeye Pipe Line Co., a 7,000-mile network of petroleum lines; Arvida Corp., which is developing land and apartments on 35,000 acres in Florida; and Great Southwest Corp., which has extensive housing and other realty ventures in California, Texas, Georgia, Hawaii and Missouri. Ultimately, the courts will decide whether...
...construction workers' display of "patriotism" on Wall Street made a travesty of everything the American flag truly represents. They brandished Old Glory in one hand and a lead pipe in the other, and in so doing perverted the very democracy for which they think they stand. As for the march on lower Broadway, there has not been such a burlesque of belligerent flag-waving since Hitler and his boys employed similar muscleman tactics. Is this the stuff of which patriots are made? I think...
According to police and newspaper reports at the time, Flanagan attacked Elrod with a pipe, breaking his neck. But according to two witnesses, Elrod's injuries are the result of his own actions, not Flanagan's. Richard Hinchion, 43, an insulating contractor from Munster, Ind., says that Flanagan was running from the police when Elrod, apparently responding to a cry of "Stop that man!" joined the chase. Attempting a football-style block, he bowled Flanagan over, then crashed headfirst into the wall of a restaurant. Michael Rollins, 35, a reporter for Chicago radio station WCFL, confirms Hinchion...
Ongania was unpopular with civilians and military alike for his stubborn authoritarianism. His generals called him "El Cano" (The Pipe), because, as one officer explained it, "He is very straight, but also very hollow." He did manage to curb Argentina's dangerous inflation, which dropped from 26.7% in 1966 to 6.5% last year. He won the gratitude of foreign businessmen by allowing repatriation of profits and by inviting the return of foreign oil companies whose exploration contracts had been canceled by his civilian predecessor, President Arturo Umberto Illia...