Word: virginians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 2,500,000 vehicles using the new bridge-tunnel every year, booming Norfolk sees only progress ahead. "The sheer beauty," crooned the local Virginian-Pilot, "is a shining demonstration of the theme that form follows function, undulating up and down as with the waves of the bay it traverses...
...only minor changes. In place of the South Carolina convention would be the Boston School Committee. With secession no longer an issue--at least for northern states--the crucial vote would concern the question of de facto segregation. And in the shoes of James L. Petigru would be his Virginian-born descendent, Thomas Fraser Pettigrew, associate professor of Social Psychology--whose course on racial prejudice and desegregation, Social Relations 134, has become the academic stronghold of the Harvard civil rights movement...
Another Texan whom Johnson vastly admires is Robert Anderson, 53, who was one of the first men he saw after taking over (see U.S. BUSINESS). Still another high-caliber Johnson favorite is Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, 46, a West Virginian who worked between 1957 and 1960 as special counsel for up-and-coming Lyndon Johnson's Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance is the odds-on choice to succeed Manhattan Lawyer Roswell Gilpatric as Deputy Secretary of Defense. Likely to follow Vance as Army Secretary is Assistant Navy Secretary Kenneth BeLieu, 49, a former staff director for that same subcommittee...
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Saunders clearly intends to follow the same track as he did at the N. & W.; merge and make more money. He cut costs by modernizing rolling stock and linking up with the complementary Virginian, and earned $65 million after taxes on revenues of $250 million last year, while the Pennsy's profits were only $12.5 million on $906 million. Saunders will aim now to bring off the much-discussed merger between the Pennsy and the New York Central-a combine that Saunders himself would probably head...