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...Southern Pacific are others-that have successfully begun to marry the computer to their operations. It uses the computer to help control and schedule its labor crew and its fleet of 120,000 freight cars, many of them running under such various names as the Nickel Plate and the Virginian (now merged into the N&W). Result: last year noncoal freight use was up 8%, and operating expenses were down fractionally despite a 10% increase in wages...
...good for a night position because there are no trees big enough to stop enemy mortars. It is close to 6 when we find a few trees, and everybody starts putting up his hooch. I pull out my hammock. "No hammocks," says Sergeant Henry A. Johnson, a Virginian who has a master's degree in communications. "The C.O. doesn't allow them. Too vulnerable to mortars. The C.O. believes in being cautious...
...collaborate with foreign Communist enemies." To combat such activities the Government should be freely able to tap telephones. These views so pleased J. Edgar Hoover that he had Powell's statement reprinted in the FBI law-enforcement bulletin. Nixon, too, was presumably satisfied. Powell is not only a great Virginian, he said, but "a very great American...
...pivotal influence on Kissinger was William Yandell Elliott, a large, flamboyant Virginian who became kingpin of Harvard's Government Department. A grandiose, hulking figure who often wore a white plantation suit and a Panama hat, Elliott was the sort of man who fancied himself Secretary of State if he so much as lunched with the President four times a year. During his life, he had tried his hand at poetry and novel-writing as well as teaching and policy-making; he had failed at each, but he was a man of impressive connections and formidable personality. "His books aren...
...programming instead of three and a half between 7 and 11 p.m. (6 to 10 p.m. in the Central Time Zone). The resulting changes exceeded anyone's expectations. NBC's cancellations include Red Skelton, Andy Williams, Julia, The Name of the Game, Men of Shiloh (ne The Virginian), and Kraft Music Hall. NBC's Bill Cosby and ABC's Mario Thomas (That Girl) declared their retirements before they could be canned. ABC also clumped, among others, Lawrence Welk, Danny Thomas, Johnny Cash, Pearl Bailey and The Newlywed Game...