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Last week the Boston & Maine dropped 33 runs, thus eliminating all interstate passenger service in Maine. A far sharper curtailment may be in the making at the bankrupt New Haven, whose prime problem is that 42% of its revenues come from passenger service, v. a 7% average for other lines. Its trustees last week announced their intention to sharply cut back close-in commuter service, stranding 7,500 daily passengers, and eventually to discontinue all passenger trains-but they have many legal obstacles to overcome before they can do either. To bail out the New Haven, a group...
...inanimate star of the evening is Sam, a crystal ball that tells the future incorrectly. Hackett, a Coney Island sharper turned pseudo-Freudian mind-sweeper, has great faith in Sam ("it comes from Bombay, the farfetched East"). Under Hackett's lunatic gaze, Sam's face turns red, as well it might, since in Act I the crystal ball mismatches two pairs of lovers: an arm-twisting loan shark (Steve Roland) with a taffy-sweet Ferris-wheel operator (Karen Morrow), and a glib but honest-hearted Coney barker (Richard Kiley) with a roundheeled golddigger (Luba Lisa...
...group of former college stars from the New York area, and the Harvard defense, led by captain John Daly, played well. The Crimson's weak point in the game--its offense--is something which always improves as the season progresses; the teamwork gets better and the passing gets sharper...
...show oilfield areas and natural-gas fields, and to rank refinery areas by size. Besides high cartographic skill, all this called for a special printing process. For the U.S. editions, the map was printed in eight colors-yellow, magenta, green, grey, gold, pink, blue and black. To get sharper differentiation between the lines and patterns, it was printed as if it were a piece of fine art-by sheet-fed offset on heavy paper-and then was bound with the rest of the magazine, which came off rotary letter presses. For the overseas editions, which are always printed offset...
...years, the loudest noises in the aerospace business have been the rumble of liquid-fueled boosters blasting spacecraft into orbit, the sharper roar of solid-fuel military missiles climbing into their long trajectories, and the continuing, wordy battles between the promoters of each type. Now, back of the racket, can be heard the insistent voice of still another competitor in the rocketry race-the hybrid that manufactures its power by combining liquid oxidant with solid fuel. Detractors may scoff that the hybrid combines all the dangers and difficulties of both solids and liquids. Its champions are confident that...