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...past two years, the radio-equipped buses and streetcars of Washington's Capital Transit Co. have resounded with syrupy popular music and insistent commercials. Some of the defenseless passengers objected strongly enough to protest to the Public Utilities Commission. Defeated there, they went to court. Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia agreed unanimously with the protesting passengers, ruled that they have a constitutional right not to listen while they ride...
Revive the Dead. Once Around the Sun, Critic Atkinson's new book, deals only infrequently with politics and the theater. Its 365 random essays, one for each day of the year, touch on everything from New York's subways ("Hogs get better care in transit") to tax collectors ("We have submitted to the despotism of contrivers, bullies, informers and crooks") ; from Times Square ("This slovenly canyon") to Russian drama and literature ("Stalin's success in destroying them is one of his mightiest achievements. No man of ordinary strength could wreck so much national genius...
Riders on Metropolitan Transit Authority lines next fall will be dropping tokens into turnstiles, instead of using coin boxes...
Even if the bill were amended to include only the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the results would still be financially disastrous. The line, now under state ownership, has a $7,000,000 deficit which increases $600,000 every year. Half-fare student rides are a fine idea, but not for a transportation system which is already hopelessly insolvent...
Speaking in favor of the bill, several B.U. students said that the present fares, particularly on the Metropolitan Transit Authority, are too high for many students...