Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion of its own earnings and funds from private investors for rehabilitation of the badly maintained and accident-prone system; it would lay 540 miles of new track a year and replace 3.4 million ties (in June, derailment of seven cars of an Erie-Lackawanna freight train in Scranton, Pa., which was attributed to the poor condition of the tracks, tied up traffic on the line for the better part of a day). If all goes as USRA plans, Conrail will survive losses of $631 million during its first three years, break Into the black by 1979, and turn...
...Mafiosi were Russell Bufalino, now the mob boss in Scranton, Pa., and two lesser fry: James Plumeri and Salvatore ("Sally Burns") Granello, of New York City. Before Castro overthrew Dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, the three men controlled a race track and a huge gambling casino near Havana. When Castro took power, he banished the three. The trio left behind $450,000, which they asked friends to hold for them. The money, the take from the casino's last days, belonged to Mafia clans in New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh...
...committee is a careful blending of G.O.P. factions. Representing the party's right wing are Dean Burch, who was a key strategist in Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, and Richard L. Herman, former national committeeman from Nebraska. From the left are former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and Robert Douglass, a New York attorney who is close to Nelson Rockefeller. In the center are Bryce Harlow, an old White House hand (now a lobbyist for Procter & Gamble) who was an adviser to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon; former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longtime congressional ally of Ford...
...House Aide Robert Goldwin, come to lunch or dinner to exchange or offer ideas. The President is also in the habit of soliciting the views of trusted outsiders: longtime Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin Representative John Byrnes, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and William Whyte, a U.S. Steel vice president and lobbyist who also plays golf with the President...
...WILLIAM SCRANTON, 57. A leading member of the now quiescent Eastern G.O.P. establishment, Scranton served in Congress for two years, then was elected Governor of Pennsylvania for a four-year term. In 1964, he made a try for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Since then, he has been regularly appointed to presidential commissions and special missions. He was one of a dozen statesmen who were recently called in by Kissinger to discuss the breakdown of negotiations in the Middle East...