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Protecting Customers. Federal officials reckon that a severe cash bind threatens as many as six other major railroads: the Western Pacific, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, the Milwaukee Road...
...major U.S. hotel chain is expanding fast overseas. In more foreign places than ever before, travelers this year will be cooled by U.S.-style air conditioning, mellowed by martinis and sustained by steaks at hotels with such reassuringly familiar names as Hilton, Sheraton, Inter-Continental and Holiday Inn. "We reckon the opportunities abroad, particularly in Europe and Latin America, are as great for us as they were in America when we started in the '50s," says Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the 1,200-unit chain of Holiday Inns. Having opened its first European inn two years ago at Leiden...
...former times of trouble, even America's severest critics usually shared the notion that the disappointing child they were shaking heads over was still a bouncing specimen; there was plenty of time to reform its ways. Now, little time seems left. All these skilled critics not only reckon on the chance of an American apocalypse; they simply take for granted that most Americans are living with the shadow of this new apprehension. Read together, their examinations are an extraordinary documentary of America's changing attitude toward itself. Historical change is what these books are ostensibly about; the change...
Above all, he would have had to reckon with the armed forces. No Soviet leader could gain power today in the face of the army command's express opposition. An elite, well-paid and tradition-conscious group of professionals, the military officer corps is one of the most cohesive elements in Soviet society. Moreover, as the protector of an invasion-wary people, the army commands genuine popular respect, even though its vast appetite for funds is chiefly responsible for persistent shortages of consumer goods. Top political leaders rely heavily on military expertise for advice on policies as diverse...
...Doubell's rivals reckon that his high living will soon make him an easy mark, they had better reckon again. According to Stampfl, Ralph is responding so well to his program of "stress adaptation" that he fully expects him to be a topflight competitor "at least until...