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...brief sojourn under the Charles River and the train is exposed to the rational sunlight at a stop called "Community College." A large white building nearby proclaims itself in modernistic lettering as "ECTURE." Otherwise only railroad yards and sand an gravel companies to be seen, No one gets off the train at Community College and no one gets...
...young Italian girl (Olimpia Carlisi), having just emigrated to Switzer land, finds a job waiting on tables in a railroad cafe. Adriana has a quiet single-mindedness that could be mistaken for stubbornness. She also has a distinct pride in herself, a trust in her own heart, that makes her seem both vulnerable and accessible...
Last week, three days after the USRA had snubbed its plea for a $30 million emergency loan, the debt-ridden Rock Island Line became the first major railroad outside the Northeast since World War II to file for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act. Rescue operations began almost immediately. To avoid stranding 13,000 commuters, Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority promised to take over service in and out of the city. Meanwhile, the Interstate Commerce Commission summoned representatives from 60 railroads to Washington and indicated that it will dismember the 7,500-mile road. The ice will parcel...
Just as he would like us to believe, to understand Skinner is to understand his past history and reinforcement contingencies. Born in the railroad town of Susquehanna, pa., Fred Skinner was "taught to fear God, the police and what people will think." Skinner writes, "My mother was quick to take alarm if I showed any deviation from what was 'right'... I can easily recall the consternation in my family when in second grade I brought home a report card on which under 'Deportment,' the phrase 'Annoys others' had been checked. Many things which were not 'right' still haunt...
...Muskie's political base, Maine, any great source of support. Maine's last presidential nominee was the unsuccessful James G. Blaine in 1884, a man to tainted by railroad scandals that his opponents sang chants of "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine. Continental Liar from the State of Maine...