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...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Airdrop at Arnhem" recounts the massive Allied paratroop attack behind Nazi lines in Holland on Sept. 17, 1944, and reviews the tragic failure of this bold plan to hasten the end of World War II. Walter Cronkite revisits the area where, as a war correspondent, he parachuted with the 101st Airborne Division, and also interviews the intelligence chief of the Dutch underground. Repeat...
...prime, nothing better epitomized travel in the age for which it was named than the Twentieth Century Limited. A 1902 passenger once declared that it made New York and Chicago practically suburbs of each other. It did so with an all-Pullman splendor that offered both fresh-and saltwater baths, barbers and a library. Soprano Nellie Melba, the Armours, the Swifts and Teddy Roosevelt rode the train, and oldtime waiters recall that early-rising Herbert Hoover was invariably first up for breakfast. But in recent years, ordinary coaches had to be added to match the fare ($43) at which jets...
...Twentieth Century, whose 80-man crew now often outnumbers passengers, approached last week when New York Central President Alfred E. Perlman announced plans to abandon, starting Jan. 1, all passenger routes of over 200 miles...
...Central & Hudson River Railroad for profit or for public service. "The public be damned!" was his immortal reply. "We run them because we have to. They don't pay." The modern New York Central has changed its manner, if not its mind. Along with the Central's Twentieth Century and New York-Detroit Wolverine, the venerable Spirit of St. Louis may also be eliminated if the Interstate Commerce Commission approves the request of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is now more or less set to merge with the Central...
...lofty elliptical orbit, Gemini-Agena passed several times through the "South Atlantic Anomaly," an area where the lower portion of the Van Allen radiation belt dips to within a few hundred miles of the earth. Though the astronauts were exposed to radiation, it was only one-twentieth the strength that NASA scientists had expected and well within safe limits...