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...second instalment portrayed Harriet Tubman, the tiny but herculean conductor of the Underground Railroad, who never lost a passenger. Included was her gunboat raid into Confederate territory, making her, according to an official dispatch, "the only woman in American military history ever to plan and conduct an armed expedition against enemy forces...
Others made it to Washington in Mob-organized car pools, a Pennsylvania Railroad special train, or in some 200 chartered buses (at $8.50 a head, round trip from New York). Mob financing came easily: when an antiwar ad ran in the New York Times recently, Bellinger & Co. quickly called each of the more than 200 signers and tapped them for cash. More money came in through box-office receipts from speeches by Mailer and Rap Brown, while individual contributions ranging as high as $5,000 in cash helped fill the till. The Mob also made money by selling green...
...York Central President Alfred E. Perlman was 55 when he and the late Robert R. Young began serious negotiations with Pennsylvania Railroad executives toward a merger of their lines. Next month Perlman will turn 65, nearing the expiration of his contract with the Central because of age-and still waiting for the Penn Central merger to occur. But at least he is getting closer. Last week, in the latest of a series of legal moves involving the Penn Central, a three-judge federal court in New York told Perlman and Pennsy Chairman Stuart Saunders that they could go ahead...
There was-as in five earlier court battles over the merger-an important "if" to the order. The Penn Central merger has so far been vigorously opposed by other railroads that would be affected, and the judges ruled that three of them-the Erie Lackawanna, the Boston & Maine, and the Delaware & Hudson-should be given immediate homes in the Norfolk & Western. The "if" was that the Norfolk & Western, which wants to hold off acquisition of the three until it has merged with the C. & O.-B. & O., has 15 days to appeal to the Supreme Court. N. & W. President Herman...
...Second, an analysis of an alternate route through Cambridge--one which would go from the B.U. Bridge along Memorial Drive to the B&A railroad yards in East Cambridge. Among the various routes proposed for the Cambridge link in the Belt, the Memorial Drive route was usually rejected rather quickly. According to Mayor Hayes, the rejection was due "more to verbiage than actual studies." Hayes said that the DPW had turned down the route as "one-sided"--it would only be accessible on one side; its other side would run along the Charles River. The City has argued that...