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Electric trains carried other undergrads across the Bay Bridge from San Francis co; thousands more of Berkeley's 21,396 students arrived by bus and streetcar...
Small World. In Milan, Italy, Pickpocket Paulo Gaudenzi got off a streetcar after stealing a wallet, took one quick look at his loot, chased the car, jumped on, thrashed his victim. In the wallet : a photo of Paulo's wife, inscribed: "To the world's most thrilling lover...
...were going out on a general strike; to Italian leftists, steelworkers are known as the "motorized divisions of the Communist revolution." In Florence, city employees were on strike, in Messina the printers walked out. In Catanzaro it was the building workers, and in the Venetian province the railway and streetcar workers. In Terni, demonstrating workers carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields: almost 1,000,000 agricultural laborers in the Po Valley were on strike, endangering Italy...
Harrington also had a long-range program that made Chicagoans bug-eyed. By upping streetcar and bus fares from 9? to 10? (El fares would remain at 12?), he hoped to boost the operational earnings of the combined lines, now taxexempt, to about $14 million a year (last year's earnings: $8,000,000 before taxes). With this money coming in to meet depreciation and debt charges, he planned to spend $150 million on modernization. By 1955, if all went well, Chicago would get 2,900 new buses, 600 new streetcars, 1,000 new El coaches...
...Francisco, 60-year-old Francis Van Wie asked the Superior Court to remove him from a fruit ranch to which he was paroled after being convicted of bigamy two years ago. Van Wie, an ex-streetcar conductor who married 13 wives before the law caught up with him, wept as he explained his request: college boys, working on the ranch during the summer, kept calling him the "Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line...