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Thus passed over, Langdon was anxious to relinquish the B. & O. presidency, which was taken over temporarily last week by Tuohy. From his new position as Rock Island chairman, however, Langdon could end up running the big Union Pacific if the Rock Island merges with it. Langdon is highly regarded in rail circles, and both Union Pacific President Arthur E. Stoddard and Chairman E. Roland Harriman are approaching the road's retirement...
...North Carolina hoarded huge quantities of military supplies. Strode observes that "the President must have reflected somewhat bitterly what a difference these hoarded commodities would have made to Lee's men during the grueling siege of Petersburg. But he had been unable to persuade the Governor to relinquish his stores...
...ladder drawn up and no way out of the pit. "I'm sorry," says the young woman (Kyoko Kishada), who lives alone in the sand pit. "You cannot leave." Again and again he tries, again and again he fails. Slowly, through long years of suffering, he learns to relinquish his will, to accept his fate. In the end, serene as a sage, he fathoms a great mystery of life: a man is not free unless his will is free, but if his will is free it does not matter if his body is bound...
...suggest that Horace Judson relinquish his job with TIME to take a professorship in English, teaching the honors program. His keen insight as a critic of Faulkner resulted in one of the best estimates of that writer I've ever read. It is a masterpiece...
Parke-Bernet's handful of stockholders resisted Sotheby's bid for months, some expressing reluctance to relinquish control to a foreign company. Last week Richard Gimbel, the sole remaining U.S. stockholder, charged that "the American flag has been sold down the river." Sotheby's Wilson tried to soothe feelings with artful reasoning: "I'm sure you would find people in my country who said the same thing when Ford bought into England. One-way traffic is undesirable...