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RAIL-CONTROL BATTLE for the Western Pacific, important California rail link, is on between the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. Southern Pacific started fight by secretly purchasing 10% of Western Pacific; Santa Fe countered by buying 20%. Both now await an Interstate Commerce Commission decision on which will get a clear track to seek control...
...White House, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko fell into a vacation mood and headed for Manhattan. From a City Hall welcome, Akihito, a noted ichthyophile, dashed a block away to a commercial aquarium-stock store, purchased some rare breeds of fish (imported to await his arrival) and arranged for them to be aboard his chartered plane when he flies back fo Tokyo this week. It was not on the crown prince's official schedule, but he was anxious to say hello to an old acquaintance, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who lives in Manhattan...
...English group whose members compete in single soulls for positions is the club eight. The race took place on a Saturday morning, with the finals scheduled for that afternoon. Still toting colds, the Crimson oarsmen eliminated the Scullers by one-third of a length and sat back to await the winner of the other semi-final heat...
Turning the Tables. This was the time for action. But Kasavubu merely went back to his residence, now ringed with a special force of U.N. guards, to await signs that the nation had risen to his support. Instead, the man who acted was Patrice Lumumba. Less than an hour later, he appeared at the radio station, brushed aside U.N. troops and broadcast his own message to the nation: "Congolese, stand firm!" he cried in his high, thin voice. "The government cannot be dismissed until it loses the confidence of the people, and the people are fully behind it." Then, having...
Doyosi Ki-i-yeno. One evening last week, in an apartment motel in Van Nuys, seven Episcopalians of Father Bennett's former flock met together to await the coming of the Holy Spirit. Bursts of laughter from a television set across the courtyard invaded the reverent silence, but the two men and five women paid no attention, praying aloud from time to time for individuals in sickness or trouble and for "those who are resisting the out pouring of the Holy Spirit...