Railroads should try transcontinental roller coaster
Washington notes a roller coaster boom boosts profits yet railroads still lose money. The piece imagines rail lines as one-way, cross-country roller coasters with loops and spins on existing rights of way, hints at a government role via a Wham trak type entity and cites Penn Central as owning vast unused track.
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Washington
UPI
America
Penn Central Corp
Topeka
Erie
Guests sign waivers not to sue party host
Hollywood report on a Kaleidoscope Films Ltd party where guests signed a mimeographed liability waiver before entry. The form released hosts from damages arising from alcohol or other substances and stated consumption was at the guest's own risk.
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Hollywood
UPI
Dan Dowd
Kaleidoscope Films Ltd
Orson Welles War of the Worlds anniversary tale
Orson Welles 1938 radio broadcast caused mass panic as Martians supposedly landed in Grovers Mill New Jersey triggering evacuations, suicides, and fear across cities from Pittsburgh to Boston. Eyewitness Eddie Kemp recalls the night as a close call.
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Kenneth R. Clark
United Press International
Earth
Grovers Mill
N.J
H.G. Wells
Welles
Orson
Eddie Kemp
Mercury Theater of the Air
Pennsylvania
Grovers Mill Water Tower
Kemp
Howard Koch
Beachhead
New Jersey
CBS
Pittsburgh
Indianapolis
New York
Oakland
Calif
Plainsboro
Newark
Ashville
N.C
Brevard College
Atlanta
Richmond
Scranton
Boston
William Dock
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Norman Mailer
New York City
Morris
Saratoga Inn
Orson Wells
Gil Godfrey
TRAVE
London
TWA
British Airways
Europe
W. Main ST
Grundy County
Santa Claus
Grundy
FDIC
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