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...Peripherally involved"? The film shows interviews with the closest spectator to the limousine when the fatal shot was fired, vith three railroad employees who viewed the assassination from the railroad bridge just in front of and above the limousine, with the former Dallas police officer who saw Ruby enter the basement just before he killed Oswald, with a witness to the scene of the Tippit killing who indicates that two men may have been involved in that murder, with the photographer who took motion pictures of the assassination as the shots were fired, with Ruby's former bartender...
...fall afternoon in 1955, eight-year-old Janice May was found raped and beaten beside the railroad tracks near Canton, Ill. She died an hour later. Subsequently, Canton Cab Driver Lloyd E. Miller Jr., 28, was sentenced to death for the crime. Yet Janice's murder remains unsolved. Last week the Supreme Court unanimously reversed Miller's conviction because the prosecution had used false evidence with an almost incredible disregard for U.S. standards of fair trial...
...made its Broadway debut with two Shakespearean plays last week in the midst of a four-month tour of the U.S. and Canada, is, as its name implies, a provincial repertory troupe. The company tends to substitute energy for excitement; it gives drama the steady, dependable joggle of a railroad trip, instead of scaling peaks or plumbing abysses. The actors read their lines with unfaltering clarity, but they seem less well acquainted with the minds and hearts of the characters they are playing...
...train in question is the California Zephyr, and the petitioner was Western Pacific Railroad, one of three railroads (the others: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Denver & Rio Grande Western) that operate the Zephyr's 2,500-mile-long trip between Chicago and San Francisco. In turning down Western Pacific's request to discontinue its portion of the run-from Salt Lake City to San Francisco and back-the ICC cited assets that have long enchanted Zephyr passengers...
...bespeaks something significant about the U.S. railroad-passenger system that such a train could lose money -which it does. Western Pacific expects to drop $560,000 on the Zephyr this year, largely because of rising labor and maintenance costs. Conceding that the train "imposes a substantial economic burden on Western Pacific," the ICC nonetheless expressed optimism that the financial picture may gradually improve. One possibility: giving Western Pacific an increased share of the revenues collected jointly by the Zephyr's three operating railroads...