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...assets." Chalk started out well enough. He replaced old streetcars with spiffy new air-conditioned buses, and demanded prompt, courteous service from his drivers. Longstanding union grievances were eased by increasing drivers' wages to the point that they were the fourth best in the country for city transport workers. Within two years, however, Chalk began paying dividends to stockholders, including himself: he and his wife own a third of the stock in the holding company...
...none since the B-47 was phased out. The Soviet tactical air force includes 4,800 planes, mainly attack bombers such as the YAK-28 and fighters (MIG-21s and SU-7s), which can be used for low-level bombing and strafing missions. There are also some 1,700 transport aircraft, including an estimated 20 of the monstrous Antonov-22s, which can carry 720 troops. Despite the Soviet advantage in numbers, most experts rate the U.S. Air Force superior to the Russian in every important category because of superior U.S. equipment and pilot combat experience...
...company has drastically modernized its management. Royal Dutch/Shell has been one of the world's most complex organizations ever since 1907, when Marcus Samuel, the Briton who started out trading in sea shells and was one of the pioneers in the use of oil tankers, joined his "Shell" Transport & Trading Co. with the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. Even today, Shell consists of those two parent companies, which through two holding companies own or control hundreds of firms round the world, including the U.S.'s Shell Oil Co.* For years Royal Dutch/Shell had two separate headquarters in Britain...
...masks distracting outside noises and disturbing interior echoes. The white noise has its limitations. "It's very tricky," says Robert Newman, senior vice president of Bolt Beranek & Newman, a Cambridge, Mass., company specializing in acoustic engineering. "It would take a horrendous amount of noise to mask a supersonic transport airplane. Generating white noise to hide sounds above the annoyance level is like using Chanel No. 5 to hide the fact that you haven't had a bath for weeks...
...demonstrators-none of them Harvard students-were arrested in the TWA terminal at the airport while protesting construction of the SST (Supersonic transport), which will begin operation in the mid-70's. No permit was granted for the demonstration...