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...Nothing to Lose." Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders lays most of the blame squarely on the railroad he formerly headed: the Norfolk & Western. "A campaign of delay is being conducted in good part by the Norfolk & Western Railway," Saunders told the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce recently. "With everything to gain and nothing to lose, the N. & W. seems to want to prolong as long as it possibly can the tremendous competitive advantages gained from its own merger with the Nickel Plate and Wabash, which has been in effect for more than two years." Saunders called the N. & W. "the Marie Antoinette...
...intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railway." One of Hat's high points is a wickedly malicious monologue on the art of olive-stuffing, in which he reduces the mystique of bullfighting to the noble, tragic grandeur of a pimento impaled on a cocktail pick. On those exceedingly rare occasions that Donald Swann opens his mouth, he can be equally and extravagantly nutty-as when he remarks on infant care: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs...
...impressive array of statistics to prove that the bombing has caused "serious manpower, supply and morale problems" for Hanoi. From March 1965 through last September, said Brown, U.S. bombers have caused a "serious degradation of the North Vietnamese logistic net" by destroying or damaging 7,000 trucks, 3,000 railway cars, 5,000 bridges and 5,000 barges and boats. Two-thirds of the North's oil storage capacity, most of its munitions-making facilities and nearly all its bridges outside Hanoi and Haiphong have been hit. Just to repair the damage, 200,000 to 300,000 North Vietnamese...
...government's hand to start building the plant soon, a regional patriot named Amruta Rao went on a hunger strike. Little by little, noisy support for his demand spread through out the state. Last week mobs went on a rampage in dozens of towns, burning post offices and railway stations, tearing down telegraph lines and looting private shops. Finally, after 18 rioters were killed in clashes with police, army troops were brought in by air to restore order...
Robert W. Noyes, lecturer on Astron omy, left over a week ago to set up camp in a converted railway car in the mountains east of Arequipa...