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...Back Bay is as sedate as ever, although most of it belongs to dentists. Whitehill remembers that "the railway tracks at Back Bay Station formed a sharp line of demarcation between two worlds. Elsewhere buildings on the 'wrong side of the tracks' were usually of wood and in a tumble-down condition, but. . . the blocks around the Latin School were of red brick or brown stone, symmetrically and even handsomely designed. There was no doubt, even to a schoolboy, that the South End was the wrong side...
...kind of climate that keeps you moving. In Rome, all you feel like doing is looking out the window." A Milanese is always going somewhere: to his job, or to one of the cafes and bars in the glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe's tallest, and was designed by a native son, world-famed Architect Gio Ponti...
...north India, sending aloft choking clouds of dust that turned skies the color of tarnished brass. Delicate animals at New Delhi's zoo were shipped off to the mountains to beat the heat, and hordes of humans had the same idea; many queued up all night at railway ticket offices to buy seats for the few train coaches that were air-conditioned. City employees demonstrated angrily for khuskhus curtains-spongy grass screens that cool the air when sprayed with water -for their office windows; municipal officials had to place a guard at the new water cooler to keep away...
...major power struggle to merge the nation's Eastern railroads into two massive networks built around the Pennsylvania and the New York Central broke into the open last week. Forcing the fight was the announcement that directors of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the Nickel Plate Railroad had agreed to merge. Since the Pennsylvania Railroad owns about 33% of the Norfolk & Western, railroaders saw the move as a step toward a giant Pennsy network...
...Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway-which cross the continent from Seattle to St. Paul on almost parallel routes-last week announced that they are close to a firm agreement to merge. A combination of the two roads, bitter rivals in the days of the empire builders, would produce a system with 17,492 miles of track, the longest in the U.S. The two roads' revenue last year amounted to $778 million, second only to the Pennsylvania's. Included in the merger would be the railroads controlled by the two lines: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1959 revenues...