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...five years that he was president of the hapless New Haven Railroad, Boston Attorney George Alpert moved up and down the land preaching that only Government subsidies could save the nation's railroad passenger operations from extinction. The Interstate Commerce Commission, historically opposed to rail subsidies, pretended not to hear. But last week, with the New Haven in bankruptcy and Alpert back at lawyering, the ICC did a roundhouse turn. After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer. Testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee...
...Memoriam. Describing the year-long selection process of the exhibition. Frankfurter confessed surprise that the 19-member art committee displayed remarkable unanimity in balloting on paintings to meet the indefinable requirement of the chosen theme-that they be masterpieces. But it was plainly a task for taste-and thus one that would have been cheerfully shared by the woman in whose memory the benefit collection was organized, New York City Art Patron and Philanthropist Adele Rosenwald Levy, who died 13 months...
...agreed to desegregate lunch counters when school segregation ends (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In Durham, N.C., professors at Duke University and North Carolina (Negro) College joined students in picketing segregated movie theaters. In Columbia, S.C., 190 Negro students began to stand trial for singing hymns outside the state capitol. The year-long success of such demonstrations has raised a thirst for knowledge of the first principles of the weapon. Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, the nation's leading Negro campus, is answering this curiosity with what is probably the first credit course in "Philosophy and Methods of Nonviolence...
...airline-fare cuts are the result of a year-long study by five top TCA executives. In response to President Gordon McGregor's desire to increase the number of travelers by decreasing the cost of traveling, the team re-examined the entire airline cost structure. They concluded that since take-offs and landings are the most expensive part of every flight (heavy fuel consumption, airport fees, ground expenses), fares should not be calculated on a straight price-per-mile basis. Instead, statisticians worked out a new cost curve that drops as flights get longer. Thus, round-trip flights from...
...question of whether Ezra Pound will occupy the footnotes or the chapter headings of future literary history depends, as Biographer Norman concludes, on the poetic merits of the Cantos, a monumental 40-year-long work in progress that has now consumed more writing time than Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past combined. The Cantos are concerned with all history, 20th century history, Pound's personal story, and an eclectic sampling of all he has read. In effect, it is the poetical twin to Finnegans Wake. In sections laden with socio-economic bafflegab, multilingual word play and telegraphic truncations...