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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate and the House resurrected yesterday what they had killed last week, as both approved Governor Volpe's bill to purchase the controversial Old Colony line of the New Haven Railroad for use as part of a rapid transit system to the South Shore...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Legislature Authorizes Purchase of Old Colony | 5/9/1961 | See Source »

Amalgamation of the Old Colony with the MTA is a major part of Governor Volpe's plan to revitalize the long-suffering Boston transit system. It is reported that inherent in Volpe's proposal is the hope that an efficient rapid transit to the South Shore communities will help to decrease the growing automobile traffic from that area to the vicinity of down-town Boston...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Legislature Authorizes Purchase of Old Colony | 5/9/1961 | See Source »

Living It Up. When uncle died in 1925, Sir Hari took over as Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir. The coronation was splendid (Sir Hari wore diamond earrings and his pony a bejeweled caparison), and the British government, which encouraged maharajahs in those days to shore up its colonial rule, spent $1,000,000 to celebrate. But the ensuing rule proved less glittering. Although Sir Hari had a yearly income of $10 million, a silver-plated airplane, and a Versailles-sized palace up in Kashmir at Srinagar-now one of the Orient's most luxurious hotels-he spent much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Shivering Maharajah | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...summer, Magnavox research will result in a large list of new products. Among them: a television set with an electronic eye to adjust the picture tube's brightness and contrast automatically to the light level in the room; low-priced ship-to-shore radios, direction finders and fathometers for small boats; citizen band radios at $99 a pair; transistorized electronic organs for the home, priced from $700 to $1.500; a miniature telemetering system between doctor and patient that will broadcast the patient's electrocardiograph, brain wave or other biological signals whenever the doctor tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Magnavox Secret | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...ailing line from the deficit-ridden New Haven for what constitutes salvage rates, a low $1,159,000. It was part of he Governor's plan to link up the services of the Old Colony and the MTA and thus provide an extensive system for the South Shore...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Senators Defeat Old Colony Bill, Stall Volpe Plan | 5/4/1961 | See Source »

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