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...development around Washington along six "corridors" radiating 40 to 50 miles out from the capital. Each corridor contains about five cities, some old, some new. Parkways and strips of greenery will keep the cities from blending into each other, thus preserving each city's pride and identity. The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission is doing the same in the seven-county region that includes Milwaukee and Racine...
...basement business," says Dick Rich, "and we try to catch everything in between as well." "In between" represents about 60% of the purchases made by the 75,000 customers who crowd into Rich's stores on an average day. Although most are Atlantans, Rich's considers nine Southeastern states as its secondary market; it is not unusual for housewives from Tennessee or North Carolina to fly in for a day's shopping...
...failure crippled nearly one-third of the 48,000-sq.-mi. area served by the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection, a power grid serving those three states plus Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C. It began in southeastern Pennsylvania, when a 230,000-volt power line abruptly surged with 606,000 kilowatts. The overloaded line heated up and cross-circuited with a low-voltage line. The Philadelphia Electric Co. had twice warned system dispatchers to anticipate a heavy load and split it between two lines, but the orders, for some reason, were disregarded. The short circuit automatically shut down Philadelphia Electric...
...trials involve a rule that a soldier must refuse an order to commit war crimes." If it can be shown that by obeying the order Levy was abetting the commission of atrocities, Brown said, the major charge against him would be dropped. The defense, led by Charles Morgan Jr., southeastern regional director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was so astonished at the ruling that war-crimes evidence would be heard that it had none to offer immediately. Instead Morgan won a recess until this week and called on antiwar propagandists to volunteer proof of his statement: "I think...
...that venture, Ackerman called in Trautman, then a San Francisco lawyer, set him to reorganizing Greyhound as a holding company. In quick succession, Greyhound picked up an industrial catering company that feeds workers at General Motors, hospitals and other institutions, a Manhattan fire and casualty insurance company, a Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries Ltd. in Winnipeg, Canada, three...