Word: railroad
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...Berrigans are beyond doubt the most revolutionary priests that the Cathollic Church in the U.S. has yet produced. And there is nothing very radical about their background. They grew up in Syracuse, the sons of a tough Irish railroad worker; their mother a gentle devout Catholic, was known as a soft touch for every passing hobo. Daniel, who entered the Jesuit order straight out of high school, is a poet and chaplain at Cornell University he favors turtleneck sweaters and admits to being a "hippie priest." Philip, an infantryman during World War II, was ordained in 1955 in the Josephite...
Married. David Rockefeller Jr., 26, whose dad holds the purse strings at the Chase Manhattan Bank; and Sydney Roberts, 24, daughter of a Penn-Central Railroad executive; in BalaCynwyd...
Died. William P. Kennedy, 76, head of the 200,000-man Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen from 1949 to 1962, remembered for a paralyzing strike during the Korean War; in Minneapolis. "We've won a tremendous victory," crowed Kennedy, whose call for a national strike in 1950 prompted the Government to take over the roads. Finally, in May 1951, the railroads threw in the towel, signed a contract giving Kennedy's men a $97 million-a-year wage increase...
SOME IGS projects involve traveling by interviewers. Once 40 students spend several days riding every branch of the New York Central Railroad, interviewing approximately 3000 passengers. Another few students spent the spring in Cleveland one year, interviewing gas station owners. For the recent Career Planning Study, interviewers were sent to 35 colleges all over the United States...
...world's largest commercial building, occupies air rights over the former site of the Chicago and North Western terminal. As a national rail hub, Chicago now figures to get a major face lifting because of newer airspace projects. The biggest beneficiary is likely to be the Illinois Central Railroad, which owns air rights above its tracks and right-of-way along Lake Michigan worth at least $185 million. Two of the most imposing structures on the Chicago skyline, the 41-story Prudential Building and the 40-story Outer Drive East apartment building, have already been built on air rights...