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...like an overextended name for a New Mexico manufacturer of Navajo Indian blankets. When the name begins to appear on stock tapes sometime later this summer or early fall, even Easterners will soon learn that it refers to the big and already well-known Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. Like other U.S. railroads, the fourth largest, Santa Fe, has become increasingly active in nonrail businesses, now receives about $17 million annually, or close to 30% of its total earnings, from these other activities...
...summon a Central Committee plenary session and try to force the resignations of some of the old guard among its 110 members. The conservatives, in turn, hope to have rallied enough support by then to turn Dubcek out of office and replace him with Alois Indra, 47, a onetime railway worker who sees things Moscow's way. He may get an open boost from Kosygin if Dubcek is unwilling to put the brakes on his reform program...
...steel layer cakes. Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden is part of a development built on air rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...
Nigerian jets returning to their bases have even doubled back to strafe ci vilian crowds gathered at railway crossings, in village marketplaces and in a churchyard after morning services. Nigeria's Egyptian pilots have so often bombed and strafed Biafran hospitals-whose roofs are often clearly marked with large red crosses-that Ibo mothers in some areas risk death for their seriously ill children rather than take them to such prime target areas...
Later that day Mrs. Collins took me around to talk to another neighbor, Mrs. Lillie Mae Common. She had recently quit a cooking job at one of the local eateries, a small room attached to the Pure Oil gas station just this side of the railway tracks that divides the town. The eatery is run by a tall woman, hair dyed an unnatural deep black, whose hips liked to brush against the hairy fingers of a customer. Sister of the gas-station's owner-manager, she was married and yet not married; some mystery surrounded her status...