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Twilight Zones. Factories have been ordered to cut power consumption 10% and everyone else (except essential services) must cut 20%. During peak load hours between 6 and 10 p.m. shopwindow lights are turned off, illuminated billboards are darkened, neon signs stop flashing. Worst of all are the daily blackouts, which hit 48 city zones in turn for periods varying between 30 and 50 minutes beginning at twilight each evening. Elevators stop, TV sets go blank, street lights blink off. As the lights finally return in darkened bars across Rio, a cry rises from dwellers in tall apartment buildings: "Give...
These are the Red Sox, the successful nonentities who are challenging the mighty Yanks for the league lead. Some even say that they have not yet reached their peak, that when Stuart (.233) and Mejias (125) begin hitting at their usual clip, the Sox will really pull away from the rest from of the league...
...three times its book value to get control of one company. Wall Street is also skeptical of such tactics, and the stock of Defiance has dropped from a 1962 high of 13⅞ to 6⅝last week; B.S.F. is down to 6¾ from last year's peak of 15¼. But the trio carefully maintains a collectively optimistic face and predicts a profit...
...from last year's peak of 15¼. But the trio care fully maintains a collectively optimistic face and predicts a profit for Lionel this year. Muscat, who also is the one empowered to do the boasting among the partners, says: "Between the three of us, we have enough experience, money and follow-through to run any company in the country...
Like most railroaders, Maidman wants to concentrate on freight, but he picked a startling way to get rid of commuters: he offered to buy them out. If they would agree to a cutback in service from three round trips daily to two one-way trips at peak hours, he would put on a comfortable, air-conditioned streamliner. More important, if the 200 commuters agreed unanimously to his scrapping all commuter services, he would pay them $1,000 each. How to identify all those eligible to collect? Says Maidman: "The conductors know all the commuters on the line." At week...