Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Universe and a girl well adapted to overcoming language barriers everywhere. After flying into Japan to hustle graciously for Royal Crown Cola, the company that sponsors her, Sylvia donned a long silk kimono and obi for a round of tradition al tea drinking. Her first pass showed a clear Western influence as she knocked back the whole cup in one gulp, but she was soon taking it down in the prescribed three sips. "It's fabulous," said Sylvia of the green Japanese brew. "It looked like pea soup but tasted like-well, like exotic bouillon...
...story, leaked from Washington, was that in springtime six juniors at a college in western Pennsylvania had gone to a grassy knoll near the campus, taken LSD, and remained for hours, staring wide-eyed into the sun. As a result, their retinas were so badly burned that all six became totally blind. Authority for the story was Norman M. Yoder, 53, commissioner of the Office for the Blind in Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare. He stood by it after his informal report to Washington got out. A state senator and Governor Raymond P. Shafer backed...
Saunders moved into the chairman's suite at Pennsy's Philadelphia headquarters only four years ago. He brought with him the bright reputation he had built as president of the Norfolk & Western, which he helped turn into one of the nation's most profitable railroads. He also brought a consuming energy that threatened to wear out associates. For he is a man who dotes on work. An average day includes twelve hours at the office, another three working at home-after which Saunders relaxes with a vengeance. He ordinarily takes a couple of double martinis before dinner...
...plans for the Penn Central were the most am bitious yet. As Saunders promoted them, his tireless determination seemed to promise eventual success. Inevitably, it gave new impetus to a growing roster of other corporate unions: ¶ In the East, the coal-rich Norfolk & Western and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Baltimore & Ohio are moving toward a merger that will probably be consummated some time in 1970. The C. & O. took effective control of the B. & O. five years ago in a move that enabled the limping B. & O. to use C. & O. credit ratings to buy new equipment ($312 million worth...
...Midwest, where the railroad map is incredibly tangled, several efforts are under way to unsnarl it. The aggressive Chicago & North Western, run by Ben Heineman, has merger agreements worked out with the Chicago Great Western, and would like to include the Milwaukee Road. The Illinois Central and Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, with 9,200 miles of frequently parallel track, hope to merge too. The Missouri Pacific is anxious to take over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The three "Northerns"-the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington-have been given tentative ICC permission to combine lines that cover most...