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...aircraft" from its corporate title to reflect involvement in the wilder blue of aerospace. Seeking to show a more suitable face to the public, Hardware Mutual Insurance, which was founded 60 years ago by members of the Wisconsin Retail Hardware Association, recently chose to become Sentry Insurance. Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Co. juggled 200 names and picked Stanray Corp. when it added an aviation equipment division...
Gwen L English, 45, a greying Perry Mason fan who works as a bookkeeper for an oil company; her husband is a diesel electrician for the Santa Fe Railway...
Daughter of a railway mail clerk, Sandy was born in Hastings, Neb., and raised in Kenesaw and Lincoln. After a short flirtation with college life, she left for New York, where she took a cold-water flat in the Village and enrolled in Herbert Berghofs acting school. Here is where the hat-check part usually comes in, and the feet graped with blisters, but not for Sandy. She had been in Manhattan only a few months when an off-Broadway producer stopped her on the street, asked if she was an actress, then said he wanted her to read...
...months since eleven unions struck the Florida East Coast Railway over a wage dispute, there have been some 200 acts of sabotage against the line. All told, 82 freight cars have been derailed, a station and a bridge burned, another bridge blown up, and $1,250,-000 damage done in one of the meanest railroad strikes in recent U.S. history. Last week it got even meaner...
...produce or shop for their needs; huddled protectively in the railway stations between trains, they exude the musty smell of damp wool, onions, bitter tobacco and accumulated sweat that has blanketed Russia far longer and more pervasively than Marxism...