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...buses or their own cars ride the 36-mile commuter run from New Jersey's bedroom suburbs to North Bergen, where buses hook up with Manhattan. Last year the line collected $47,289 in revenues from passengers-and lost $200,000 on them. Former owners did everything to shoo off the commuters, even to removing newer cars and replacing them with 50-year-old cars -but all to no avail. Last month New York Real Estate Man Irving Maidman, 66, became chairman after having bought control of the line for $1,500,000. He promptly came up with some...
Berlin & Broilers. The Common Market is making every effort to shoo away the U.S. chickens. A new rule effective last July fixes minimum prices on poultry entering the market, and each of the six member nations is also permitted to tack on a tax pegged to domestic poultry production costs. The minimum price set for U.S. broilers is 33.3? a lb., and the West German supplemental tax adds another 9.7?. To make matters worse, the Common Market this month imposed an arbitrary surcharge of 2.8? on broilers. All this boosts delivery prices of U.S. chickens by as much...
...only in New York, where Democrats have not even found a candidate to face popular Nelson Rockefeller. Good G.O.P. possibilities: Ohio and Pennsylvania. Tossups: Michigan and Nixon's own California. But Nixon's prediction, however sanguine, threw sudden light on an interesting fact: the Democrats are not shoo-ins in the five states with the biggest urban vote...
...seemed an outright ringer-an obvious hedge against another talented foreigner's running off with the prize. Only 24, he was already far more seasoned in the concert hall than most of the contest's applicants. But, as it turned out, the home-town hero was no shoo...
...important areas of Africa. In steaming Uganda, a black former herdboy was picked to steer the divided little land toward independence Oct. 9. In the sprawling Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, a white, burly former locomotive engineer won another chance to pull his disintegrating country together. The shoo-in victors...