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...work directly of American Airlines but of a father-son team that runs Caldwell Communications Inc., which publishes The American Way. John Caldwell, 55, and John Jr., 29, formed their company in 1967 as an ad agency, and went after the account of American Airlines' air freight division. They lost, but so impressed airline executives that American asked them to publish a projected new magazine. Says John Jr.: "Two guys with advertising backgrounds found themselves in publishing overnight...
...week's end, in any case, all thought of negotiation was blown away by a volley of I.R.A. bombs. First a freight train was blown up near Lurgan, 20 miles southwest of Belfast. Then a bomb went off in a Belfast bus station, killing at least four civilians and two British soldiers. Soon, in what was obviously a carefully planned operation, explosions were going off throughout the city. Among the targets: three bus terminals, a railway station, a garage, two highway bridges...
...costs will be lower out of Albany, even though the new location adds eleven hours of travel time. Some Midwestern shippers are abandoning U.S. docks entirely in favor of ports at Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products as Playboy magazine, Kodak film, and Michigan beans (which in a later incarnation are known as Boston baked beans) now depart from Canadian ports for their worldwide destinations...
...money on the side through petty thievery with his pal Roy (Roy Hay wood). The lads meet up with another mate nicknamed Bronco Bullfrog, whose recent stretch in reform school has given him some profitable connections. Bronco (Sam Shepherd) cuts the boys in on a job robbing a freight...
...control, hurling waves of water down the hills into Rapid City. "We watched in amazement as a small stream spilling from the hillside turned into a four-foot-wide torrent," recalled Jerry Mashek, a reporter for the Rapid City Journal. "Rapid Creek, normally clear and placid, sounded like a freight train passing in the night. It must have been 150 feet wide...