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...Interstate Commerce Commission is reviewing the greatest number of proposed railway mergers in its history. If the majority of these mergers is approved, the railways will have succeeded in a massive attempt at consolidation which will group them into five or ten large companies covering the nation...
...Rome, the first green leaves last week peeped along the Lungotevere, and flowers sprouted behind sidewalk tables on the Via Veneto. Spring had come, and the ladies could not be far behind. As early as 9 a.m., tight-skirted hustlers prowl the square before Rome's modernistic railway station; by noon, they are ensconced on the benches of the Pincio Garden, casting provocative glances over the tops of sunglasses at passersby; by dinnertime, they begin congregating near Rome's biggest supermarket alongside Olympic Village and beside the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla...
...gloomy British Railways headquarters on London's Marylebone Road, a room has been kept carefully locked for months, with its key entrusted to only one man. The room's treasure: the data for a top-secret report on Britain's rail system prepared by burly, brusque Dr. Richard Beeching, 49, who resigned two years ago as technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries to become the nation's rail-car czar and the highest-paid civil servant ($67,000 a year) in British history. Last week the report was finally made public, and Beeching's thoroughgoing...
...cutback attempts. This week in Chicago the railroads and their operating unions will begin another effort to see if they can work out a compromise through collective bargaining. If that fails and the union threatens to strike, the President almost surely will appoint an emergency board under the Railway Labor Act, thereby staving off a walkout for at least 60 days more. The real showdown will therefore be postponed at least until summer...
Thus described, Pynchon's book sounds like a Jack Kerouac eruption. It is not. The prose is quiet, sane and assured, even when it is describing something like the invention (by someone Benny meets at a party) of a coin-operated whorehouse for bus and railway stations...