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...suburban Neuilly, managing to slip unobserved through the hospital's rear door. The crowd of reporters and photographers waiting at the hospital's main entrance apparently were deliberately distracted by the arrival of an ashen-faced and obviously distraught Jackie, who was accompanied by Christina Onassis (the shipper's 24-year-old daughter by a previous marriage...
...tankers will be operated by Maritime's newly formed American subsidiary, General Maritime Corp., which will thus become the second U.S. shipper to operate VLCCs. General expects to announce soon the full composition of its board, which already includes Sol Linowitz, former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and ex-Secretary of the Navy John Chaffee...
...Congressman, investor or shipper who might have thought that the Government solved U.S. railroads' financial problems a year ago, when it took over the operation of most passenger trains, has been getting a rude awakening. Congress is now studying six major bills that would extend further help, and industry spokesmen are warning that the legislators must race in order to rescue the nation's rail system from a threatened collapse. They do not seem to be crying wolf; the railroads' plight is bad enough to have won the sympathy of their chief competitors. Truck lines and many...
...most efficient form prevail. A first priority should be removal of the legal barriers to creation of integrated transportation companies that could own railroads, airlines and truck lines, and move goods and people in the most economic manner. The fragmentation of transport today is costly. A shipper should be free to turn his goods over to, say, the Land-Sea-Air Transport Co., rather than having to negotiate separately with airlines, railroads, truckers...
...Peter Grace Jr., 53, is a grandson of the Irish-born chandler and trader who, in 1854, founded W. R. Grace & Co., first as a merchant shipper, later as a holder of huge Latin American in terests. Mrs. Lorraine Mulberger, 52, is a granddaughter of the German-born brewmaster who, in 1855, cooked up Miller High Life, one of the beers that have made Milwaukee famous. Last week Grace and Mrs. Mulberger agreed on a big business deal: for $36 million, Grace bought the 53% controlling in terest owned by Mrs. Mulberger and members of her immediate family...