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...fortunate enough to have a car, be wise enough to leave it in the garage. Save it for your week-end trip to Tanglewood or Cape Cod. Boston is no place to drive in. Scooters are fine, and walking is even better; but for most, the public transit system will do best. It's called the MTA, and 20 cents will get you almost anywhere. Park Street Station in downtown Boston is the hub of this underground network. But, remember the subways and buses stop...
...reach the island aboard Trans Caribbean Airways, another Chalk enterprise. Chalk likes to have his multifarious businesses give one another a helping hand. His newspapers can be expected to plug Trans Caribbean. Similarly, Trans Caribbean once had ticket counters in the offices of Washington's Chalk-owned D.C. Transit System, Inc. And D.C. Transit's buses, not surprisingly, will ultimately have a terminal in Chalk Center, a $27 million office building, hotel and shopping complex to be erected next year in southwest Washington...
Chalk delights in showmanship. When he bought D.C. Transit for $13.5 million from Corporate Raider Louis Wolfson six years ago, Chalk ordered the line's buses repainted in a green, white and coral design selected by Wife Claire Chalk. The capital's first air-conditioned buses were welcomed with a traffic-tangling parade of bands, calypso dancers and pretty girls. But along with the showmanship went solid business sense. D.C. Transit eliminated most of its streetcar lines, improved services, added express buses. Net income has shot up 97% since Chalk took over-partly because of these improvements, partly...
...publishing chain shakes down, Roy Chalk will almost surely want more money. His philosophy is to keep what he buys and look around for more. Just where he will turn next he will not confide, but does admit to a continuing interest in the still struggling New York City transit system. Says he with that pocketa-pocketa look in his eyes: "I'm a patient man, and I'm interested...
About four hundred men of Harvard cheered an elephant named Sonita last night from the steps of Widener Library. They also threw $24.33, one MTA token, and one D.C. transit token on those steps to rent her Friday, when she will race under the colors of the Harvard Elephant Racing Association in Fullerton, Calif...