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Reed is determined to maintain the improvement. One indication of his fierce pride in the railroad is a recent tiff with Amtrak, the Government-sponsored corporation that has taken over operation of most U.S. passenger trains. When it took over the Santa Fe's fabled Super Chief service from Chicago to Los Angeles, Amtrak kept the name but dropped the linen napkins and fresh-cut flowers that traditionally graced the dining car. John Reed, aghast at such a decline in standards, withdrew permission for Amtrak to continue calling the Super Chief by its proud old name...
Leggy Lady. At the time, Snowdon brusquely disputed any talk of a tiff. But new signs of deep trouble in the marriage kept turning up. Tony took over a country place in Sussex, where he, Margaret and some of his pals gathered on weekends. But the princess soon tired of what she called Snowdon's "leather jacket" cronies, who bridled at calling her "Your Royal Highness." When Margaret stopped going to Sussex, Tony took fashion models along on assignments. Another reported companion, from the nearby estate of the Marquess of Reading, was the Marquess's daughter, Lady Jacqueline...
...Senior Tiff Wood is still competing for a place in the four-man boat...
...National boat and Dick Cashin will follow suit. Both oarsmen will be in England next year--Shealy at Oxford, and Cashin at Cambridge--and the possibility of their returning in time for the Olympics is great. Greg Stone hopes to go the Olympic route sculling, and Tiff Wood will probably be aiming for the eight. And that's the wrap-up from the where-will-they-be-next-year department...
...players take pains to maintain their non-jock distinction. When Rutgers showed up at the first Intercollegiate Frisbee Championship held last month at Yale sporting numbered uniforms and soccer shoes, the Tufts varsity responded by wearing yellow T shirts all emblazoned with the number 3. At the Tufts-Hampshire tiff, the first Frisbee was thrown out by the grandmother of one of the Tufts players, Mildred Cunningham, a little old Planned Parenthood lady who proceeded to give away LOVE CAREFULLY buttons and tell other spectators that she was "glad the boys are doing this -there're so many worse...