Word: transit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Should the Corporation adopt the suggestions of these professors, may I humbly suggest that the motto of the University be changed from "Veritas" to "Sic Transit Gloria Universities." Robert Lee Behrens...
...start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken a story about the New York Transit Authority's having illicitly taped meetings of the Motormen's Benevolent Association. Gene Gleason, 32, was indeed in the mold of the crusading reporter -until last week, when he suddenly found himself a confessed liar...
Whole families often play with the Philharmonic. S. Carl Robinson, vice president of the St. Louis transit system, plays the second flute while his wife is a timpanist and his 23-year-old son a French horn player. The rehearsal schedule is heavy: six 2½-hour rehearsals for each of four concerts. What gives the Philharmonic its special quality? "They are amateurs," said Guest Conductor Van Remoortel last week, "in the old sense of the word-'people in love with something.' This group happens to be in love with music...
...union has demanded an immediate 25 cents hourly wage hike, although its members presently receive $2.51 an hour plus fringe benefits, highest in the nation. The transit authorities, on the other hand, have proposed nine pages of work rule changes designed to save $2 million annually, and will probably refuse to grant another wage boost...
...continue to use public transportation as long as it exists. But are these people worth an annual $18 million subsidy? Right now, the public--for whom the system is supposedly operated and by whom the deficit is paid--lack any effective voice in the operation of the $1 billion transit system. Poor Charlie may yet escape from the tunnels, for under present conditions the MTA cannot expect to operate perpetually...