Ken Owen ( born Kenneth Owen, 23 April 1970, Billinge, Merseyside ) is an English drummer.

Although the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970, which established Amtrak, specifically states that " The Corporation will not be an agency or establishment of the United States Government ," the federal government ( through the United States Department of Transportation ) does own all issued and outstanding preferred stock in the company.

* 1970 – Rail Passenger Service Act PL 91-518

Following the massive bankruptcy of the Penn Central in 1970, Congress created Amtrak to take over the failed company's intercity passenger train service, under the Rail Passenger Service Act.

Passenger service ended in January 1970 with the discontinuance of the Hoboken-Chicago Lake Cities, the last long-distance passenger train operated by DL & W successor Erie Lackawanna.

Terminal 1 was opened on 3 May 1970, replacing the old Overseas Passenger Terminal ( which was located where Terminal 3 stands now ) and has been greatly expanded since then.

In response to the bankruptcy President Richard Nixon signed into law the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 which formed the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, a nationalized government owned and subsidized railroad.

In 1970 MOL established Mitsui OSK Passenger Co., Ltd. ( MOP ), with the reorganization of JES.

* The former Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Passenger Station, built in 1900, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Passenger train service to Leaside Station ended in 1970, and the station was closed.

In 1970 Congress created a government corporation, Amtrak, to take over operation of Penn Central passenger lines and selected inter-city passenger services from other private railroads, under the Rail Passenger Service Act.

He subsequently produced three notable films with Michelangelo Antonioni, Blowup in 1966, Zabriskie Point in 1970 and The Passenger in 1974.

* 1970: Rail Passenger Service Act ( Amtrak ),

Passenger services ended in 1970 and the last train passed through in 1981.

Passenger services ceased in 1970 and the last train ran on 17 July 1981.

Passenger service ended in 1958, and the line was abandoned in sections, Winchendon north in 1970 ( after the bankruptcy of the Rutland RR ) and in 1984 for the rest.

Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravanganza is a spy novel by Agatha Christie first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1970 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

The area of responsibility was reduced to that of the Greater London administrative area in 1970 when the Greater London Council, and then London Regional Transport took over responsibility.

The Greater London Council was the transport authority from 1 January 1970 to 28 June 1984 and the executive agency was called the London Transport Executive.

The GLC did not take control of public transport from the London Transport Board until 1970 and lost control to London Regional Transport in 1984.

* The 1970 British Transport film Rush Hour inclues several scenes filmed in the station

* A DC-3 registered OO-AUX ( which SABENA had leased from Delta Air Transport ) was damaged beyond repair in a ground accident at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on 9 May 1970.

Nakasone rose through the LDP's ranks, becoming Minister of Science in 1959 under the government of Nobusuke Kishi, then Minister of Transport in 1967, head of the Agency of Defense in 1970, Minister of International Trade and Industry in 1972 and Minister of Administration in 1981.

In 1970, the field was transferred to the United States Navy, which operated it as US Naval Air Station, Bermuda until 1995 when the US Navy terminated its 99-year lease and the field was transferred to the Bermuda Government, which now operates the airport as part of the Ministry of Tourism & Transport.

Although the plan was approved by Metropolitan Toronto and the Government of Ontario, the Government of Canada ruled out the waterfront site for a major airport early in 1970, although Transport Minister Donald Jamieson suggested there would be some sort of expanded airport serving " short-hop, inter-city " flights created.

Transport Statistics shows BN operated 23609 miles of line and 34691 miles of track at the end of 1970 ; it shows 4547 SLSF miles of line not including QA & P and AT & N.

* On 20 February 1970, Douglas DC-3 B-243 of Far Eastern Air Transport crashed into a mountain shortly after take-off.

Following establishment of British Air Services as BEA's new holding company for its two loss-making regional airline subsidiaries, BKS Air Transport and Cambrian Airways, in March 1970, the corporation acquired a two-thirds majority shareholding in British Air Services in the autumn of that year to ensure its regional partners ' survival.

This was created by Edward Heath as a combination of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Building and Works on 15 October 1970.

In 1997, when Labour came to power, the DoE was merged with the Department of Transport to form the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions ( DETR ), thus, essentially, restoring the DoE to its initial 1970 portfolio.

* Walsall Corporation Transport 862 – A Sunbeam ( of Wolverhampton ) F4A with a Willowbrook Body, it was built in 1955 and retired from Walsall in 1970 on the closure of the trolleybus network.

He was first elected as an MP at the 1970 general election as a member of the Labour Party, and served as a Parliamentary secretary in the Department of Transport under Bill Rodgers in the Callaghan government.

Following the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan, the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Act 1970 was brought forward by Transport Minister Vernon Wilcox, with the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority ( MURLA ) created in 1 January 1971 to oversee the construction and operation of the Loop.

* 1959 – 1970: Ministry of Transport

Jean Chamant succeeds Mondon ( d. 31 December 1970 ) as Minister of Transport.

Until 21 January 1970, London Transport bus route 134 showed PIMLICO Dolphin Square as a destination and actually terminated in Chichester Street.

The preferred organisational structure in the 1970s was for the BRB to form wholly owned subsidiaries which were run at an arm's-length relationship, e. g. the railway engineering works became British Rail Engineering Limited ( BREL ) in 1970 ; the ferry operations to Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were run by Sealink ( U. K .) Ltd, part of the Sealink consortium, which also used ferries owned by the French national railway SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority Regie voor maritiem transport / Regie des transports maritimes ( RMT / RTM ), and the Dutch Zeeland Steamship Company.

Ownership of the station was not transferred to London Transport until 1 January 1970.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Barbara Castle at the Ministry of Transport and after 1970 was frontbench spokesman on industrial relations.

He was elected on 18 June 1970 and became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in October 1978.

The 1970 constitution replaced the Legislative and Executive Councils with a single Governing Council.

In 1970, Robert M. Fomon was appointed Hutton's Chief Executive Officer.

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

Page was National Football League Players Association player representative, from 1970 to 1974 and in 1976 – 1977, and a member of the NFLPA Association Executive Committee from 1972 to 1975.

Noreen M. Culhane ( New York Rose 1970 ) now Executive Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange.

Saarinen's student Edmund N. Bacon achieved national prominence as Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970.

The position of Student Member of the Executive Council was created in 1970.

Dennis Edward Skinner ( born 11 February 1932 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bolsover since 1970, the Chairman of the Labour Party from 1988 to 1989, and has sat on the National Executive Committee numerous times since 1978.

Michelle Gildernew ( born 28 March 1970 ) is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician and former Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development in the Northern Ireland Executive.

He was a political officer from 1970 with the trade union Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff ( APEX ) and then from 1990 with its successor the GMB Union until his election to Parliament in 1992.

Additional technical expertise was recruited in 1970 and Holighaus became Chief Executive in 1972.

Wood is a US Army veteran, ( 1970 – 1971 ), served as a Veterans Service Officer for the State of North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs, ( 1987 – 1989 ), as Vice-Chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party, ( 1980 – 1984 ), and on the North Carolina Republican Party Executive Committee, ( 1984 – present ).

* Tom Merritt ( born 1970 ), Executive Editor for CNET

Paine resigned from NASA September 15, 1970, to return to the General Electric Co. in New York City as Vice President and Group Executive, Power Generation Group, ( worldwide ship propulsion, nuclear power and steam and gas turbine generators ), and later became Senior Vice President for Science and Technology ( oversight of GE's research and development ).

Amongst the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967 Executive Order extending full Affirmative Action rights to women, Title IX and the Women's Educational Equity Act ( 1972 and 1974, respectively, educational equality ), Title X ( 1970, health and family planning ), the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ( 1974 ), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the illegalization of marital rape ( although not illegalized in all states until 1993 ), the legalization of no-fault divorce ( although not allowed in all states until 2010 ), a 1975 law requiring the U. S. Military Academies to admit women, and many Supreme Court cases, perhaps most notably Reed v. Reed of 1971 and Roe v. Wade of 1973.

After completing his education at A & M in January 1970, Cisneros and his wife moved to Washington, D. C. where he became the assistant to the Executive Vice President of the National League of Cities.

On December 2, 1970, Paul Martin, the 32-year old executive assistant to Power Corporation Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) Maurice Strong, was appointed to the CSL board of directors.

He was a member of Labour's National Executive Committee from 1950 until 1978, and Chairman of the Labour Party 1970 to 1971.

* Member of the PAIGC War Council Executive Committee ( 1970 – 1971 )

From 1970 to 1973, he was the principal assistant to Caspar W. Weinberger, who was deputy director, then director, of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President under President Richard Nixon.

Richard W. Dortch ( October 15, 1931 – June 15, 2011 ) was an Assemblies of God District Superintendent for Illinois ( 1970 – 83 ) and an Assemblies of God Executive Presbyter ( 1971 – 1985 ).

London buses continued under the London Transport name under the management of the LPTB ( 1933 to 1947 ), the London Transport Executive ( 1948 to 1962 ), the London Transport Board ( 1963 to 1969 ), the Greater London Council ( 1970 to 1984 ) and London Regional Transport ( 1984 to 2000 ).