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That night, Freedom delegates wearing borrowed credentials enter the covention by "Underground Railway"--once they reach the Mississippi sector, they remove the badges, which are then taken outside and used to bring in more delegtes. A crush of reporters keep the sargeants-at-arms away...
That night, Freedom delegates wearing borrowed credentials enter the convention by "Underground Railway"--once they reach the Mississippi sector, they remove the badges, which are then taken outside and used to bring in more delegates. A crush of reporters keep the sargeants-at-arms away...
...went out to the warring gangs to stop shooting it out in downtown Nice and frightening visitors. To emphasize their concern, the police called for reinforcements from Paris and Marseille, and last week rounded up a swarm of clucking poules, from the $5 girls who hang out at the railway station to the $50 streetwalkers of the Rue Halévy. After a night in the violon (clink), the poules were warned to make themselves scarce. A bistro proprietor was gloomy about the police crackdown. "You watch," he said. "When the maquereaux run out of money, they'll take...
...merger would stitch together the 8,263-mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,682-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,546-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 965-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The result, including a few subsidiaries, would be a 26,564-mile system that would stretch from Chicago to Vancouver, B.C., and from Winnipeg to Galveston, rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Pennsylvania and Southern Pacific) in annual revenues, with its $775 million. The examiner, Robert H. Murphy, based his recommendation on the fact that the once powerful roads, though still making a profit, have suffered a "steady...
...ogle the sights from a 338-ft. observation tower, the symbol of the city's growth. Osaka's myriad restaurants are noted for their epicurean meals-and it is just as well. The new trains from Tokyo carry buffet stalls but no dining car. Reason: the railway claims that its trains go too fast to leave time for full-course dinners...