Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad worker in Washington, B.C.. Baylor learned his basketball playing settlement-house and playground ball ("I'd play anywhere to get a game"). When he graduated from high school in 1954, his marks were as bad as his basketball was good, but he landed a scholarship at tolerant College of Idaho. Freshman Baylor averaged 31 points a game, led the team to a 23-4 season, then transferred to Seattle University, where he really developed his talents. Last year Baylor trapped rebounds one-handed on the backboard, scored 32.5 points a game (second to Cincinnati's Oscar...
...venture. Then, at a critical moment, Eaton backed out of a deal to underwrite $11.7 million worth of new Kaiser stock. (The court fight lasted four years; characteristically. Cy Eaton won.) One of his biggest deals: helping the late Robert R. Young win control of the New York Central Railroad in return for control of the profitable, coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio...
...gloom of the '57-'58 recession, many a U.S. railroad sought merger partners to strengthen its condition. For 14 months the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 roads, talked, thought and studied. Last week the Central flashed the red board. It announced that it was suspending the Pennsy merger talks until "three or four systems of nearly balanced economic strength in the East" could be studied. Conferences among smaller roads in Portland (Me.) and Cleveland (TIME, Dec. 1), said the Central's directors, indicate "a new climate among...
...Batista and his cohorts. In fierce street fighting that killed 60, Guevara whipped a dispirited army garrison of 3,000 men and took Santa Clara (pop. 150,000), the rebels' first big city. A trainload of 150 troops sent by Batista refused even to get out of the railroad cars. Batista was through...
...Interstate Commerce Commission ordered the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. to maintain passenger service on its 1,130-mile system up to four months after the Jan. 12 abandonment date proposed by the road while it investigates whether the service should be continued...