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...School and science laboratories. The third section goes south to the Houses and the Business School. We followed this for a short distance--it looked just like the ear-her part of the Tunnel until we came to another smaller chamber. "Here," said Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway" is no more than a pulley-operated car with room enough for one person to lie flat on it. But it serves an important purpose: we had come to Massachusetts Avenue, where the Tunnel must squeeze between the top of the MTA subway tunnel and the street--a space...
...President this year. Asked how he felt about a poll of the editors that indicated he would win, he replied: "I hope they feel in November as they do in April." He ranged from the state of the U.S. economy (see BUSINESS) to the progress of railway management-labor negotiations; he urged Senate passage of the civil rights bill, touted U.S. missile strength, allowed as how he might have "a hard fight, a difficult one" for election, listed a number of legislative items on which he places priority. Although he said nothing very startling, he made a pleasing number...
Time & Again. Behind the threatened strike lay almost five years of inflexible dispute. The railway carriers have long insisted on their right to change the "work rules" for employees. Basically, this meant that management wanted to end the featherbedding practices for which the railway brotherhoods are notorious-such as their insistence upon "firemen" on diesel engines...
...March 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court gave railway management an apparent go-ahead for putting the new work rules into effect. But once again, at the request of the Administration, management held off. In the meantime, the unions were three times enjoined from striking. Then, last week, workers of the Illinois Central went out on a wildcat strike-a surprise walkout without giving the notice that would make another injunction possible. Next day the carriers, determined not to be picked off one by one, announced that they would finally put national work-rules changes into effect. As expected, the unions...
...best and the worst of Remarque are in the book. His settings-hotels, restaurants, railway stations-have the gritty taste of reality, and no novelist is more adept at suggesting the rictus of terror that distorted the face of Europe as it slid nightmarishly into war. But Remarque's derelict vision of humanity allows little room for pity, and none at all for rage. "What has my life been?" asks Schwarz at the end. The man across the table replies with a shrug: "It was your life. Isn't that enough?" The question calls for an answer-which...