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Sustained Sentiment. The man who is slated to preside over the Penn Central, fittingly enough, is the man who started the merger trend. It was Saunders, as president of the Norfolk & Western, who arranged for the takeover of the Virginian Railway in 1959 and laid the groundwork for the N. & W. to acquire the Nickel Plate and the Wabash. Born in McDowell, W. Va., Saunders grew up in Bedford, Va., within sight and sound of the N. & W.'s main line through the coal fields. He attended college in the town where the N. & W. has its headquarters. Even...
Alter Ego. A Yale-educated West Virginian, Vance, 50, arrived on the Washington scene in 1957 to help draft the Space Act, then was chosen as special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, chaired by L.B.J. After the Democratic accession in 1961, Vance became general counsel to McNamara, moved up to Secretary of the Army a year later. During his 18 months in that post, and later as Deputy Secretary, he supervised the revitalization of the Army and other "cost-effective" reforms as McNamara's discreet alter ego. Vance's health is a limitation in the grinding...
...veteran actor; of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A ruddy-faced onetime lumberjack, Bickford most often merely played himself-a rough, tough, but good and decent man, remembered as the priest in The Song of Bernadette (1944), and recently as the leathery ranch owner in TV's The Virginian...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A band of comedians (Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Jack Carter and Bill Dana) fights to rescue the TV badlands from a notorious gang of cowboy heroes led by James Drury (The Virginian). Bobbie Gentry sings along with the action in "ShootIn...
Mighty Theme. Styron's passions seem to be confined largely to the printed page. The darker emotions-fury, despair, guilt-pour through all of his works, but Styron himself projects the reserved, slightly courtly manner of the storybook Virginian. It is a coincidence that his book should come on the heels of the summer riots. While Styron does not condone the violence, he views it through a chilling perspective sharpened by his five years with Nat Turner. The Negro extremist, says Styron, "is purifying himself by violence of a sense of his own abject self-ratedness...