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Overall, the impact from Braniffs failure was not expected to be big. Braniff carried only 3.5% of U.S. air passengers. No comparison could be made with the monumental wreck a dozen years ago of the Penn Central Railroad, which was one of the main arteries of American rail traffic. By week's end only two of Braniff's routes were not being served by other carriers: Dallas-Wichita and Dallas-Omaha. Other airlines are expected to take them over soon. -By John S. DeMott Reported by Mark Seal and Michael Weiss/Dallas
...buildings are temporary and can be dismantled and their parts sold when the fair closes. Even the trees are planted in wire baskets for possible later transplanting. Yet none of this impermanence detracts from the fun, let alone the ingenious beautification of a site that was a messy, abandoned railroad yard when groundbreaking started a little more than two years...
...state's other big-circulation newspapers are in Jacksonville: the Florida Times Union and Jacksonville Journal (combined circ. 199,000), owned by the Seaboard Coast Line railroad, now CSX Corp. The papers once avoided any mention of, say, a sports team flying rather than taking a train. Cracks one Florida editor: "They used to print stories about cars running over trains." Nowadays the paper hires tougher reporters and is making a creditable effort at improvement...
...that blanketed the Midwest and Northeast claimed at least 40 lives. In Iowa, five people died in traffic accidents after a storm with 40-m.p.h. winds dropped 8 in. of snow. Disaster was narrowly averted in Harrington Park, N.J., where a foot of snow stalled a bus at a railroad crossing. Minutes after Driver Peter Woelfel coolly ordered his 16 passengers out, a 53-car freight train tore through the crossing, smashing the bus in two. Forty-foot waves and winds of up to 90 m.p.h. along the Atlantic Coast raised fears of another oil-rig disaster. Operators...
...Yale Law School to incestuous beds, while their stunning mother. Hortensia, appears to epitomize Montgomery's last dispassionate bastion of social standards. But her frigid facade soon crumbles when she meets a gentle young man half her age, and their affair entangles Montgomery, from its upper echelons to the railroad station's streetwalkers. Because young Hercules is Black, questions of bigotry, race and, eventually, love confront these characters...