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What the play does have, in its second half, is some good old-fashioned emotionalism. It works up steam when what the people feel about betrayal shifts to what they feel about the actual betrayer. Mother faces her son's murderer; brother stares wildly at brother; a man cowers; a voice implores; it remains to be seen whether blood is thicker than bloodshed. The effect may be familiar, but the moment is theatrical...
...Call a long-adjourned constitutional assembly back into session, and let the opposition blow off steam...
...western root beer. With a partner he opened a hole-in-the-wall root-beer stand, the following year had two stands and no partner (he bought him out for $5,000). To make up for the drop in root-beer sales in winter, he installed a steam table and griddle, began selling tamales and enchiladas, changed his stores' name to Hot Shoppes. The chain kept expanding because the food was good, and swiftly served in scrupulously clean surroundings. Now Hot Shoppes, Inc. have 66 restaurants in eleven states and the District of Columbia, last year fed over...
Gone are the old mossbacks whose railroads ran by steam and tobacco juice. Today's operating man is younger and more flexible, an efficiency-minded innovator who spends his working hours figuring ways to apply 20th century technology to his 19th century railroad. A typical example is Downing Bland Jenks, trail-blazing 41-year-old boss of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Says he: "You don't have to look 50 or 100 years ahead to see what railroading is coming to. We could operate our whole system automatically right now, if it weren...
Other railroaders are learning to put the miracles of modern science to use-and are developing new ones on their own. Just as roads have switched over 90% from steam to diesel power, so they are now looking for ways to improve on the economical diesel itself. The Union Pacific was the first U.S. road to put to use a giant gas-turbine locomotive that burns a cheap grade of fuel oil, and can haul maximum-length freights (120 cars) at 65 m.p.h. Next year the Union Pacific will try out a newer model, which it hopes will burn...