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...offered Australia as a rest-and-relaxation center for war-weary G.I.s. During two visits to Washington, Holt became close friends with President Johnson, once winking that he went "All the way with L.B.J." "He was steady, he was courageous," said President Johnson last week after his ar rival in Melbourne for the memorial service (see THE NATION). "He was there when he said he would be there...
...away some legal complications surrounding the link of the Pennsy and Central into the nation's biggest rail system. The court overruled protests by the city of Scranton, Pa., and unsuccessful Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Candidate Milton Shapp that the merger itself would be detrimental. And it left untouched an ar rangement under which the Penn Central, if the ICC approves, would first lend $25 million to the beleaguered New Haven to keep it going; the Penn Central would ultimately acquire the New Haven and maintain its red-inked passenger and freight services...
...even now continuing to stumble back toward the Suez. Soon the Israelis had so many prisoners that they would only detain officers. An official Israeli statement announced that some of the retreating Egyptian soldiers had been machine-gunned by their own troops form across the canal upon their ar- rival. The statement also said that the Egyptians had cut the water pipe lines which fed from Egypt into occupied Sinai and that although it had inconvenienced the Israeli forces, it had also made it more difficult for the returning Egyptian soldiers to find water...
...same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners at last gave up, and offered to sell the operation to the highest bidder...
...stand-in for the past ten years, he became proficient in the art of rocket rattling, in 1963 even claimed that "Soviet rockets can reach Polaris bases no mat ter where they are." For the past seven years, Grechko has doubled as supreme commander of the Warsaw Pact ar mies, a post that the Kremlin last week gave to another Russian general. Grechko is something of a political hero as well: among the eight rows of medals on his chest is East Germany's Gold Order of Merit, which he won for suppressing the workers' uprising...