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...long-nosed rocket that rose from its pad at Cape Canaveral last week contained the most practical crew of explorers yet launched into space: a three-part package of instrument-crammed satellites. Heftiest part of the load (175 lbs.) was Transit IVA, latest of the Navy's navigation satellites, which looked like a bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller...
Payola & Whisky. Eli G. Travis, a free-spending contractor, admitted that he had lavished a small fortune on friendly city officials who helped him to get contracts and did not inspect his work too closely. On one big job-$1,000,000 worth of repairs for an elevated transit line-city officials claim that he successfully swindled the public out of $800,000. In his various deals with city officials, said Travis, he had "paid out at least $75,000 in payola." Travis testified that the chief of the Division of Architecture and Engineering and a former secretary had received...
...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...
...generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray was the son of a millionaire engineering magnate, held 200 electrical and welding patents, was receiver for New York City's bankrupt Interborough Rapid Transit Co. for eight years, headed the Murray Manufacturing Co. from 1939 until he joined...
...which Volpe signed yesterday authorizes the Commonwealth to exercise its option to purchase the Old Colony for salvage rates, $1.5 million. It also creates a new Metropolitan transit district, which will finance and operate the line...