Railroads Seen Profitable Growth Industry Despite Public Skepticism
The piece argues nine of ten big railroads are profitable and investing heavily in capital plants. Southern Railway stands out with seven straight years of record income, while the South benefits from leaner mileage and growth. Cost control, modernization, and bulk-cargo strategies underpin success amid varied regional prospects.
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Penn Central
Northeast
Midwest
Southern Railway
Frank Barton
Southern
Barton
South
East
Supreme Court
Courtroom of the Future in Sacramento Law School Building
A Sacramento law school builds a $464000 "courthouse of the future" for McGeorge's Center for Trial Advocacy. The circular, TV enabled courtroom aims to train students and test new designs including juror desks, closeup evidence screens, remote locks, weapon detectors, and translation services. The project includes a video replay system for appeals and will host police training and research on jury decisions. Funding comes from the Fleischmann Foundation and California Council on Criminal Justice.
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Sacramento
Calif
Sacramento Law School
Gordon Schaber
University of Pacific
McGeorge Law School
Schaber
McGeorge
Center For Trial Advocacy
John Dutton
Santa Clara County
Fleischmann Foundation
Nevada
California Council On Criminal Justice
Magazine claims FBI phone taps on news writers
Time magazine reports the FBI tapped the telephones of six to seven reporters three years ago on White House orders. The taps allegedly involved unnamed government sources and White House aides, with J Edgar Hoover’s involvement and a long enforcement window cited by Time.
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New York
FBI
White House
Time Magazine
U.S
Mitchell
Time
L. Patrick Gary III
Turkish Senator and Chauffeur Sentenced in Drug Smuggling Case
Turkish Senator Kudret Bayhan and his chauffeur Ibrahim Ikier were condemned to 15 years in prison and fined 662,222 dollars for attempting to smuggle 321 pounds of morphine base from Italy into France. They were stopped at the Menton border on March 5, 1972, and the court found it unlikely they were unaware of the contraband.
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Nice
France
Kudret Bayhan
Ibrahim Ikier
Italy
Menton
Bayhan
Munich
Skier
Paris
Chief Dies in L’Anse Believed Descendant of Sitting Bull
Herbert Hawkshield Welsh aged 70 died Monday in L’Anse Michigan. He was regarded as the oldest living male descendant of Sitting Bull. The obituary notes his lineage and local significance.
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L’anse, Mich
Herbert Hawkshield Welsh
Sitting Bull
Nazi-ruled territories death toll tops 3.4 million by 1942
The Inter Allied Information Committee of the United Nations reports that by end of 1942 nearly 3.4 million people had been executed or died in prisons across nine Nazi-occupied countries.
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Allied Information Committee of the
United Nations
Ex POW Denies Antiwar Radio Statement
Ex POW CWO James Hardy Hestand denies making an antiwar radio statement attributed by Radio Hanoi during his Viet Cong captivity. Speaking at Brooke Army Medical Center he says he heard his name but did not call for an end to fighting in Vietnam. He plans a military career and reflects on his captivity experience.
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San Antonio, Texas
Radio
Hanoi
United States
CWO
James Hardy Hestand
Brooke Army Medical Center
Vietnam
Hestand
Hillary backs instinct for peak Everest climb
Sir Edmund Hillary rejects necessity of scientific reasons for climbing. He says people who always justify their climbs are suspicious, noting Everest as the biggest mountain to conquer for its own sake.
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Jensen Beach
Fla
Mt. Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary
Everest
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