Editorial echoes on Penn Central passenger cuts
In Our Opinion cites a Penn Central plan to discontinue about 50 passenger trains, urging ICC rejection to preserve service. The piece argues railroads abandoned passenger travel, harming riders who rely on trains, planes, or cars, and questions motives behind reducing through and commuter services.
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New Kensington Daily Dispatch
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It Could Be Done New York TV Profile on Achievements
A 1960s NBC program celebrates working men who achieved feats like the Golden Gate Bridge Hoover Dam and Mount Rushmore with Lee Marvin narrating. The piece notes strong photography engaging old film footage and mixes strong man rhetoric with period TV commentary.
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Lee Mendelson
Golden Gate Bridge
Hoover Dam
Mount Rushmore Monument
Fifth Dimension
Steve Mills
Lee Marvin
Corry Almanac Highlights From 20 and 40 Years Ago
It recounts syrup production in Corry with sap runs over the weekend, a birthday party for William Bachemer, and Corry rifle team success at a regional meet. It also notes a 1990 dinner for Corry High School players, Memorial Day plans with Rotary and Veterans groups, plus critical remarks on Nixon era pay raises and cabinet perks.
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Rotary Club
Veterans of Foregin Wars
Nixon and Congress Skimming Taxpayer Funds
A survey of congressional pay raises and expense perks shows lawmakers boosting their salaries from 30 000 to 42 500 and enjoying executive jets and plush transport. Romney advocated pay cuts but fellow cabinet members balked while budget reductions aimed to save nearly 3 billion. A Magnavox move to distribute Birch Bayhs book highlights corporate circumvention of political contributing rules.
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Romney
The House Dick A Hard Boiled Look at a City Detective
The piece profiles a seasoned New York detective Al Marino now at the Diplomat Hotel complex security post. It traces his career from Mulberry Street to East 5th Street, noting his 27 good-arrest citations, shift to Florida, and later securing a hotel security force with sharp face recognition and decisive methods.
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New York
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Diplomat Hotel
Mulberry Street
Chinatown
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Marino
East 5Th Street
Florida
Small investors unite to Block Brokerage fee rise
New York AP report shows the National Association of Investment Clubs representing about 14 000 amateur clubs warns that higher fees on small orders and lower fees on large ones would institutionalize markets and crowd out individual investors. Institutions now account for over half of volume and 60 percent of value on the NYSE, broadening the gap between ownership and management and risking less investor participation. The NAIC urges corporate managers and Congress to oppose the proposed fee changes and preserve individual ownership rights.
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National Association of Investment Clubs
Murnal
New York Stock Exchange
Better Investing
NAIC
Congress
Securities and Exchange Commission
Committee On Banking and Currency
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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