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We are married 36 years today and the Mack rolled off the assembley line 43 years ago today.....Im am very lucky she loves the Mack as much as I do!!!! Im 61 on Sunday and my better half is a year younger than me...... Paul

Just made it! Happy Birthday Brocky!  🍦 🎂 🍻 🎺 🪕    .....Hippy

The Love Machine: Sex and Scandal in the Penn Central Q. What did you do while you were in New York for EJA [a Penn Central subsidiary]? A. General Lassiter said I could be of great, great service to him if I would help in the social life of [Penn Central officers] General Hodge and Dave Bevan, since he [Lassiter] was under a lot of pressure from them due to the company having financial problems ... . Q. Did you do any of this .. . ? A. Yes On one occasion General Hodge asked if I knew of any young ladies who would go on a business trip to Europe that he was taking with General Lassiter. Q, What did you do? A. I found a young lady that-that was agreeable to taking a European trip with an amiable group. -J. H. Ricciardi, EJA's former PR director, to House investigators O N FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1970, JUST A FEW hours before \ the nation's financial markets closed, lawyers rep- ' resenting the Penn Central Transportation Company filed a petition in Philadelphia to reorganize under the provisions of the Federal bankruptcy regulations. The news that the world's largest transportation company had gone belly up was not overlooked during the weekend by America's corporate and financial titans. About $82 million of the Penn Central's lOUs, now practically worthless, were sloshing around the big Eastern banks whose liberality towards the company was in no small measure responsible for its excesses. Rather quickly, bankers began to regard the lOUs of several other big corporations including Chrysler, SCM and Avco, with their more customary flintiness. Three billion dollars in short-term corporate loans were called in a twinkling. And a rush began on credit windows everywhere. The full story of the Penn Central crisis, according to Federal Reserve Board member J. L. Robertson who helped supervise the sandbag operation on the nation's financial structure, "has never been told and it never will be. But it's not extreme to say that we avoided another 1933." Help arrived chiefly in the form of Arthur Burns personally manning the FRB's money pumps, but also by way of enormous overseas loans drawn from European money markets. Somewhat later President Nixon got Congress to apply $125 million worth of balm to soothe the Penn Central's creditors. But in the inflationary tide that rose following the salvage operation, Nixon's deflationary economic game plan had to be scuttled. And the country still feels the effects of the bankruptcy on our bloated balance of payments deficit—since the money borrowed in Europe had to be paid back. Because the Penn Central fiasco did for corporate capitalism about what the Lusitania did for ocean travel during World War I, it seemed inevitable that the culprits—any culprits—would soon be found. Months passed. The seasons changed. Over a year went by and the Nixon administration did nothing. By way of explanation of the collapse, it was generally maintained by administration officials that the railroad business was inherently a money-losing operation. However, a lurid and spectacular counter-explanation prepared by Wright Patman's House Banking and Currency Committee appeared in December 1970. Entitled "Executive Jet Aviation," it described a wild scenario of inside self-dealings, corporate pimping of women employees and high-level financial swindling on the part of three principal Penn Central aides. The men were David Bevan, ex-chairman of the railroad's finance committee, General Charles J. Hodge, erstwhile partner in DuPont. Glore Forgan (the Penn Central's investment banker), and General O. F. "Dick" Lassiter, who used to head up a company known as Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. (EJA), in which the Penn Central held the major interest. Copies of the meticulously researched report were forwarded to the Justice Department, the Interstate Commerce Committee and the Security and Exchange Commission. Still, no action. Finally after 18 months, on January 4, 1972, a local Philadelphia district attorney, Arlen Specter, who acknowledged the help of the Patman Committee staff, handed down indictments against the Penn Central Three. The indictment charges that Messrs. Hodge, Bevan and Lassiter "conspired in their corporate activities to divert in excess of $21 million from the treasury of the Penn Central for themselves and others." Their activities allegedly "drained the resources of the Penn Central, contributing to its bankruptcy." The specific charges include the following; —Causing the Penn Central subsidiary, Executive Jet Aviation,to enter into money-losing agreements with a travel agency, which the three, together with their friends and relatives, controlled. —-Manipulating $85 million of Penn Central pension funds which Bevan and Hodgt controlled, in order to benefit an outfit known as "Penphil," a private investment group, which they also controlled. —In addition to these charges, General Lassiter is charged with personally "misappropriating" $130,000 of Executive Jet funds and siphoning them off to his own company, the now-defunct Lassiter Aircraft Corpwration. David Bevan, the middle-class boy who after years of corporate in-fighting emerged as Richard King Mellon's hand-picked candidate to head the Penn Central's finance committee, says he's a scapegoat. "Except for the fact that I am experiencing it myself," he has been quoted as saying, "I would say this sort of thing just cannot happen in America." And while General Lassiter is asking Governor Reagan to block extradition from California, Bevan wants a quick trial, "so that I can at last be vindicated." Nevertheless, attorneys for Charles Hodge, who incidentally is Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans' former business partner, estimates that the legal proceedings will stretch out for at least two years. This makes it all the more necessary, without prejudging the case, that the Patman report which served as the basis of the indictments be given the widest exposure. As we review the stumbling performance of the Penn Central corporate variety show, however, it's important to remember that nearly all the dealings described were accomplished using other people's money, e.g., money bel https://www.unz.com/PDF/PERIODICAL/Ramparts-1972mar/28-35/

What green stuff are you referring to? And other than a little oil on inside of the connector that harness looks good other than road grime and grease on the outside. 

Thank you guys!!!!!! get to celebrate the big 80 by starting the day with a doctors appointment😔

Happy b day Brocky 

Congratulations on the 36 years!!! You must be a "Cradle Robber" cause she does NOT look old enough to be 43????

Not sure about where you live, but up here the green stuff wicks into there too. Gotta look close there , do the ten pound test . New harness won't make much of a difference if that's bad there too.