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Skinner came rather slowly to his conviction that such changes can be made; his early interests, in fact, were far from psychology. Born in Susquehanna, Pa., in 1904, he was the elder son of Grace Burrhus, an amateur musician who sang at weddings and funerals, and William Skinner, a lawyer who was "a sucker for book salesmen." In his "Sketch for an Autobiography," Skinner describes his early life as "warm and stable." He lived in the same house until he went to college. He was never physically punished by his father and only once by his mother?when she washed...
...bass. It is a major wintering-over place for migratory fowl and shore birds; enormous flocks of ducks, geese and whistling swans home on its waters each year. For all its natural beauty, however, the Chesapeake is also threatened by man. Wastes poured into the upper reaches of the Susquehanna have begun to pollute the river. Continuing discharges into the river will flow into the bay, disrupting its ecological balance and leaving it as toxic as the estuaries adjacent to Manhattan...
Jaded Jury. McLendon's manifesto won an immediate endorsement from the American Mothers' Committee, as well as support or similar action from 125 other of the U.S.'s 4,200 AM radio stations, including the Susquehanna broadcasting group, and several stations owned by the American Broadcasting Co. But McLendon won't stop there. Aware that "teenage slang changes by the week," and that the hippies love to slip innuendoes past the censors, McLendon is appointing an "informal jury" of consultants. It will have to include, he thinks, an ex-prostitute and an ex-addict to catch...
...weeks later, Jack Kennedy came through. He was late, too, but not because of scheduling difficulties. Throughout his trip along the Susquehanna River to Wilkes-Barre, he was mobbed by hysterically enthusiastic crowds; when he got to Public Square, he blasted the Republicans for vetoing the redevelopment bill, and everyone went home knowing how he'd vote in November. Kennedy swamped Nixon in Northeastern Pennsylvania...
...their glamour and hustle, short lines will go on being short. Their less than 2% share of total rail revenues last year was a tiny tweet amid the mighty roar of the main lines. Mergers, of course, still take place. The Lehigh & Susquehanna disappeared last year into the Reading, and the Mohoning & Shenango into the New York Central. But one thing is certain: in 1964, the nation's short lines are too various, too scattered-and too content with their tiny place in the sun-for another Pennsy or Central ever to emerge from them...