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...make way for meaningful technological improvements. By scrapping hundreds of miles of competitive track, dozens of duplicating terminals and scores of overlapping maintenance plants, the two lines will save up to $100 million a year by 1974. More important to customers, the efficiencies of combination will cut the freight transit time by 11 % from New York to Chicago, 27% from Boston to Cincinnati, and 36% from Buffalo to St. Louis...
This week, probably tomorrow, the MBTA will release a master plan for rapid transit expansion within the Boston metropolitan area. One of the key recommendations is expected to be the extension of the Harvard Square line into North Cambridge, probably to Porter Square and then out to Route 2. And one possible route for this extension would take the subway directly beneath Radcliffe Yard and precariously close to the Loeb Drama Center...
...university student, on half-fare standby [April 22] from St. Louis to Atlanta, waited eight hours in St. Louis, then bought another ticket to Washington, D.C., where he waited four more hours, then bought another ticket to Atlanta, arriving home after nearly 24 hours in transit. Needless to say, by then "standby" was just a dirty word, and we purchased still another ticket for the return to school. I'm not too happy to learn that American Airlines has earned two million plus exploiting our kids...
...annual rate of $1.1 billion, continues to expand in many other fields. Last week it bought the Institute of Computer Management, a school for computer programmers-of which Litton needs a considerable number. It is also examining 40 to 50 vastly varied firms, including Wilson Marine Transit and other Great Lakes shipping lines. Says Thornton: "We never sit still-before or after a merger...
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