Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were playing a man-to-man pass defense. Trojan Tackle Ron Butcher came scurrying on field with a rarely used play. "IG84-weak tackle look," Quarterback Beathard muttered in the huddle. The Trojans lined up over the ball-and, way out on the right wing, a U.S.C. back casually stepped up into the line. At the same instant. Left End Bedsole took a step backward, thereby making Tackle Butcher a legal pass receiver-for that one play. The notion of a tackle catching a pass never occurred to the befuddled Badgers. All alone in the Wisconsin secondary. Butcher gathered...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last week made a belated but decisive move to revitalize the faltering railroads of the Eastern U.S. By authorizing the profitable Chesapeake & Ohio to acquire control of the ailing Baltimore & Ohio, the commission opened the way toward an ultimate merger of these two big lines. This step, in time, could spur a consolidation of the nation's oversupply of competing independent railroads into a few strong regional groupings...
...decision cheered most other Eastern railroad chiefs, who are pushing merger schemes of their own, all designed to cut costs by eliminating overlapping lines, yards, offices and work forces. "This is a great forward step." said Chairman James M. Symes of the Pennsylvania, which is driving toward merger with the New York Central. Stuart Saunders, president of the moneymaking Norfolk & Western, which is cooking up a merger with the Nickel Plate, said he was "very much encouraged...
...ready to predict how the Boston commuter will respond to all this. But if he takes to it, the Administration will probably step up its efforts to apply the same remedy in other U.S. cities. Failure of the experiment would provide railroads with a justification for cutting commuter service still more. Already Boston & Maine President Daniel Benson has warned that if Boston commuters continue to cling stubbornly to their cars, "the basic needs of financial survival will leave the B. & M. no choice but to divest itself of passenger operations...
About Time. Despite his drastic clampdown on Chrysler's spending, Lynn Townsend has not mortgaged future growth for the sake of current profit. Next year the company will put 50 to 75 gas-turbine Chryslers into the hands of specially selected customers for testing?a step that Townsend hopes will give Chrysler a commanding lead in development of what may prove the auto engine of the future. But the impact of Townsend's turnaround is already apparent among those shrewdest of critics, the dealers. Says Sacramento Dealer Dalton Feldstein: "It's a new spirit, a new era?...