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...increases are highest-about 5% -for carload or less-than-carload shipments of general merchandise. On such bulk goods as iron ore, grain, coal and pulpwood, which make up much of the railroad business, the increases average about 3%-somewhat less than the carriers requested. Even that much may not be allowed ultimately. Terming last week's decision a temporary one, the ICC ordered the roads to draw up a master tariff list, which the commission will examine and make final changes on in October...
Sorensen particularly deplored the fact that the Democrats had no "bright new faces emerging from this election -unless you count Lurleen Wallace and Lester Maddox," while the Republicans came up with a carload. "Let us be frank," he said; if men like Hatfield, Percy, Romney and half a dozen others "had the word Democrat after their names, we would be boasting about them as outstanding figures in today's political scene...
Miraculously, from this carload of sentimental clichés Germi weaves a compassionate, richly detailed reminiscence of the commonplace tragedies that every generation endures. The best of the film is seen through the eyes of Andrea's ebullient small son Sandrino (Edoardo Nevola), a lad who must learn to live among fallen idols. The boy's tongue-tied despair is eloquent when he comes upon his married sister in a parked car arguing with a stranger. So is his quiet exultation when he accompanies his father to the wineshop where former friends awkwardly welcome him back...
...There is no such thing as a minor traffic violation [Sept. 3]. The self-righteous Mrs. Placente could have slammed her Corvair into a carload of school children...
Despite ballyhooed breakthroughs and a carload of court decrees, the Deep South's resilient resistance to school integration has been remarkably effective: only 21% of the 2,980,000 Negro school children in eleven Southern states actually sat in classrooms last year with whites. As the school year began last week, however, that kind of tokenism showed evidence of crumbling, and its end seemed in sight...