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Green won and got the $40,000-a-year president's job. While car riders howled bitterly, Green won approval of a fare hike from 12? to 15?. He fired 800 employees, curtailed schedules, abandoned unprofitable trolley & bus lines...
...narrow streets must be left clear for the snow and fire equipment. But the few broader ones, including Boylston, Massachusetts, and Mount Auburn, can easily accommodate both parked cars and traffic. They would take care of the Business School lot absentees and others who do not enjoy a hike on snowshoes. In case of other homeless machines, there is a vacant plot next to the Peabody Museum which can be made to handle at least 100 automobiles...
Justice William O. Douglas, who had 23 ribs cracked when his horse fell on him two years ago, had another horse kick him in the shin last year, arrived in New Delhi after a hike through the Himalayan mountains. The record this time: one toss from a frisky yak, two falls from a mule. Damage: a sprained wrist, an aching back...
...holiday rest, Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee arrived at a resort hotel in Jotunheimen, Norway, where 25 fellow countrymen on tour greeted him with a burst of song ("For he's a jolly good fellow"). Later, starting out on a mountain hike, the Prime Minister firmly refused to wear sunglasses. Said he to his wife: "It seems to me that the world looks too gloomy through them...
...increase, were opposed by the Office of Price Stabilization, which argued that any increase would be passed on to consumers. But ICC decided the railroads needed the money "to meet the needs of national defense." Now one of the railroads' big worries is whether the new hike will shift more freight to the growing trucking industry...