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Instead of the old four-track main line, the Central's electronic system needs just two tracks, will be able to shunt swift express trains around rumbling freights by cross-over switches every seven miles, also step up the speed of freight trains from 30 to 60 m.p.h. The dispatchers can also send passenger trains hurtling east and west at 80 m.p.h. on the same track, switch one to the opposite track to pass. Cost of the Central's electronic progress: $6,238,000 for the first step, as much as $50 million by the time it extends...
...most damaging of the sales tricks is auto bootlegging. While comparatively few dealers resort to it, it has a widespread effect on the trade. To get rid of unsold cars, bootlegging dealers shunt them off to used-car dealers at bargain prices (as much as 24% below list). The cars are then put on sale at near-wholesale prices, thus undercutting new-car sales. In the resulting price chaos, local new-car dealers are forced to whack their own prices drastically or offer fantastic lures to sell their goods...
...President's budget did not follow any doctrinaire political line. It was an Eisen hower budget, which called for such humanitarian goals as the broadening of social security (TIME, Jan. 25). One sentence in the budget message was enough to illustrate that Dwight Eisenhower was not trying to shunt 20 years of history. Said he: "On the other hand, estimated expenditures for the Tennessee Valley Authority,* urban development and redevelopment, college housing loans . . . the school lunch program, and several other programs of domestic importance will be the largest in our history...
...admission standards at Maryland and at Harvard are not alike. Maryland can take a high scorer with a low I.Q. and shunt him off to study physical education. At the College, athletes must tread the same rigorous academic road as their less muscular brethren. No one has ever qualified for entrance, much less a stipend, merely because of a broad back and a strong...
Almost from infancy Bob had an amazing sense of coordination. "He never fell off chairs or ran into things," Dr. Mathias noted. When eight-year-old brother Gene began bringing his friends home to play ball, they tried to shunt five-year-old Bob aside. But they soon discovered their mistake. "The older kids noticed that Bob threw the ball harder than they could-and could catch it better," Mrs. Mathias recalls. "So Robert [the family all call him that] made the 'team' even back then. We knew we had an athlete on our hands...