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...ransom was to be "an end to United States bombing operations in Southeast Asia and the release of all political prisoners." The organization, "East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives," also intended to blow up underground electrical lines and steam pipes in Washington, Hoover said, "in order to disrupt Federal Government operations...
Though the U.S. flag is disappearing from Atlantic liners, it lingers on in the Pacific. Four American ships still cruise from San Francisco and Los Angeles to southwest Pacific islands. Alaska and Mexico, but Matson Navigation Co. is unloading its two passenger ships on another line and going full steam into freight. The Government senses that the era of luxury liners is over: the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 finances the construction of 300 new merchant ships in the next decade, but does not even mention the passenger business...
...final play of the game saw Lowell's Jack Dalton streak into the clear to run under a long bomb, with the potential shutout-avoiding score. Looking back over his shoulder to spot the incoming pigskin, Dalton crumpled to the turf after smashing full steam into the goalpost. He dropped the pass. "I was so heated up over the game," he says, "that I didn't even feel a thing. At least not until I was lying on the trainer's table to get the X-rays...
Between tales of chasing Nazi "spies" through the ubiquitous steam tunnels and helping George Wallace escape from Memorial Hall in 1964, he has little time...
...real market, where a man can amount to something, is disappearing." But with Nixon, "there was one hope left, a glimpse of the old code and toughness, of salvation lubricated in all its pistons by desperate, successful perspiration, a 'local boy who made good'. . .RICHARD NIXON steam-engining down the track, somehow un-derailed by history, cheered by those hoping he could re-establish the copybook maxims he lived...