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Sense Over Intellect. Born on July 12, 1904, in Parral, Chile, Neruda was already writing poems by the age of eight, although his father, a railroad worker, hated poets and would burn his son's notebooks. Fearing his father's wrath, he first used the pen name Pablo Neruda when he was 15, taking the surname from the Czechoslovak writer Jan Neruda (1834-91). In 1923 his first volume of verse, Crepusculario (Twilight), was published. A year later, he followed with Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair, a book that remains his most popular, with more...
...maintain what it has rather than engage in new construction. Against these assets must be set the neglect of the water system in the Delta, the destruction of highway bridges, the damage caused by defoliation and the damage to timber by artillery fire. In addition the Vietnam railroad has been put out of commission. But that may turn out to be a benefit, provided it is permanently abandoned...
...Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen was free to strike last week as Government-imposed restraints expired. Though a strike that would snarl the nation's rail system is possible, the indications are that the signalmen will await the outcome of contract talks involving the larger shopcraft unions before pressing their demands. They want at least a 54% increase in their $3.78 an hour wage over three years...
Ireland was a longtime associate of the late financier Robert R. Young. He was president of Young's Alleghany Corp., the holding company that controlled the New York Central Railroad and still controls Investors Diversified Services. In 1967 he moved to ITT as special assistant to Chairman Harold Geneen, but ITT insiders say that he did not cotton to Geneen's authoritarian ways and had been looking around for some time...
...carriers, is desirable-or, if it is not, whether it could be reversed. What neither the Federal Government nor the airlines themselves have yet produced is a viable overall plan for making sense of a business that remains as jumbled a historical hodgepodge as the nation's sagging railroad system. "Somebody ought to rationalize the route structures," American's Spater admits-but no one has begun...