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Elegant Slumming. The salon seminar was the inspiration of a liberal committee organized to defend 21 Black Panthers indicted last April for plotting to kill policemen and dynamite a police station, department stores and a railroad right-of-way. Ten of the suspects are being held in $100,000 bond each. The Panthers note angrily that only one of the three whites arrested for actually setting dynamite charges in Manhattan office buildings in November has bail set that high. The maestro and his wife Felicia, who have long been concerned with civil liberties, agreed to allow friends who were interested...
...going to drive to Tamatave? Voila. You will find the road is bad. I will tell you why. First, because we do not have money to do all things at once. Second, because if we improved the road, people would use it and the profits of our railroad would be reduced. Third, because the sooner we improved it, the sooner it would be torn up and the sooner we would have to improve it again. Voil...
...very distinct maneuvering capability, even if it does drift in the turns. To be sure, the craft is not built for slaloming in the forest; even experts require at least a 20-ft. clearance to allow for drift. Nor would you want to stray very near railroad tracks or city streets: the decibel level from the two loud engines makes it impossible to hear any approaching traffic. But the sensation really is that of flying, of handling a light plane, and after a few hours of practice it is great...
...Sunday after Christmas, as the strains of the Recessional faded away, a member of the Lords rose and tried to address the congregation. He was ignored. Then, as the congregation filed out, 150 Lords and supporters took over the building and nailed shut its doors with timbers and railroad spikes...
...present, the passenger's future is in the hands of Congress, which is considering a dozen bills to improve railroad service. The main features of most of them are contained in a bill being prepared by the Senate Commerce Committee. At a cost of up to $445 million over the next four years, the bill would provide funds for new equipment, subsidies for money-losing operations, and an office within the Department of Transportation to manage basic passenger services-in effect, a quasi-nationalized system. The plan is anathema to most proponents of private enterprise; yet, as even...