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...soaring delays and equipment breakdowns might be to give New Haven veterans a hand at the throttle. Alpert appointed a 24-year employee, Frederick J. Orner, 48, as chief of the road's operations and second in command. Orner, the road's general manager of freight service, had been demoted from assistant vice president in 1956; now he will take over the jobs of two Alpert lieutenants brought in from another road in 1958. Said Orner: "It is fairly obvious that the first thing to do is to improve employee and passenger morale...
...intense romanticism of his paintings is absent from his public personality. Back in the U.S. for a brief visit last week, he explained that his Spring with Machine-Age Noises series was painted in anger before leaving the U.S. For him it represents the noise of "jets, chain saws, freight trains, trucks, bulldozers" sweeping over a grassy patch...
Chicago's Burlington railroad, rich from freight, modernized its passenger trains in 1948, then asked for a fare hike. Commuters were so pleased by the improvements that they even wrote letters to the Illinois Commerce Commission backing the request. Four more increases also went through smoothly. The Burlington hopes to slip into the black on commuters this year. Even if it fails, it feels that its commuter losses add up to a modest price to pay for the public's good will. Says the Burlington's president, Harry Murphy: "We've got to serve the commuters...
...woolly part of the world. First off, he bluffed his way into the colonial service as a sanitation officer. Caught with a high official's wife, he landed gracefully on his feet as the manager of a copra plantation, soon bought a little schooner and took to running freight and passen gers along the coast, running "indentured laborers," i.e., slaves, to the gold fields. Twice he tried for a strike in the gold fields, twice he failed...
...Cotton's Senate seat in 1962, Powell plainly wanted the state to see who was heading the parade. Just as plainly, if anything should go wrong with the Nixon vote in New Hampshire, the state could look forward to the biggest pile-up since a freight train hit Barnum & Bailey's "Jumbo...