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...Floyd and a group of hoolums attempted to free one of their cohorts who was being taken to prison. Although the plan failed. FBI Special Agents and a local police chief died in the gun battle, which took place in broad daylight in front of the Kansas City Railroad depot...
...improved relations. Iraq got offers of political backing against both Moscow and Washington. Britain might be permitted to upgrade its representation in Peking to full ambassadorial level 20 years after granting recognition to Peking. Tanzania and Zambia naturally sided with the Chinese, who are building a $400 million railroad linking the two countries. Latin American delegations were enticed with offers of trade and support in their effort to extend their territorial waters to 200 miles. Said one delegate: "The message was that 'if you fellows don't vote with us, we may not be able to expand trade with...
...president, Attorney Eugene Garfield, 35, who was serving as assistant to Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd in 1969 when friends with some investment capital persuaded him to head up the project. Bankers refused the group additional money. As Garfield recalls: "The reaction we got was 'Who would start a railroad in the year 1969?' " But even as major cities like Dallas were losing rail passenger service, Garfield and his associates then turned to the public, sold 700,000 shares of common stock at $10 a share to buy equipment. Thus they are launching their operation debt-free. The Seaboard...
...eyes, the worst sin of all is to form a group or union independent of its control. Whole villages of peasants who refused to obey the state-controlled farm organizations have been uprooted and placed hundreds of miles from their homes. Sparing no one, the government has imprisoned railroad workers and doctors who have tried to form independent unions...
...start of Adelphi University's graduate course in Principles of Marketing. In walked a gray-uniformed functionary who matter-of-factly began punching the tickets of the equally nonchalant students. The scene was purest Marx brothers, and last week it began playing daily on the Long Island Railroad's Port Jefferson line. The classroom is a converted parlor car, and the students are commuters in one of two new programs to let businessmen take courses as they ride to and from New York City...