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...reprise of the Dylan Thomas work; The American Dream, Edward Albee's surrealistic situation comedy; Albee's The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, on a double bill of disenchantment; and the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill musical, The Threepenny Opera, the longest-running play in New York...
Last week the three-man panel of judges ended the longest and costliest trial in South African history by finding all 28 defendants innocent. In a unanimous decision, the judges declared: "On the evidence presented . . . it is impossible for this court to come to the conclusion that the African National Congress had acquired or adopted a policy to overthrow the state by violence." Furthermore, there was "no evidence of Communistic infiltration" into the congress...
Birmingham first confronts the question, What makes the Ivy Ivy League different? In his confused ramblings, he touches upon Ivy League clothes, high costs, bad football, location, and big libraries. Perhaps he settles longest on the Ivy Leaguer's social pre-eminence, especially his ability to marry high. Birmingham admits that these are perhaps only surface differences, and tries to explain it all with...
...miles) Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, built and wholly owned by the N.P. and the G.N., would be operated after the merger under a ten-year lease, presumably would then be absorbed by the giant as well. With 24,728 miles of track, the new line would be the longest in the U.S. and would rank second in revenues only to the Pennsylvania Railroad, which in 1960 had revenues of $844 million, v. some $674 million that it is estimated the proposed G. N. P. & B. might have earned that year...
Merger plans were ordered drafted last week by the directors of two other big railroads: the Chicago & North Western Railway and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific. If merged, the two lines would serve 15 states, create the second longest U.S. railroad, with 21,325 miles of track, and save an estimated $40 million in joint operating economies. But a group of Milwaukee Road directors led by Executive Committee Chairman J. Patrick Lannan oppose the terms of the proposed stock swap as too little for Milwaukee Road stockholders. They would get one new share for each owned, while...