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...best-kept secrets in U.S. business history burst into the open last week. After months of top-level discussion that leaked neither to Wall Street, the U.S. Government or even many of their own officers, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central-the nation's two biggest railroads-announced that they are considering a merger that would be the biggest corporate marriage ever. Said Pennsy President James M. Symes and Central President Alfred E. Perlman: "Preliminary studies and discussions indicate that substantial benefits to all concerned may result from such a merger...
...first visited the antarctic as a Boy Scout with Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 expedition, was a member of four later expeditions) will direct the research activities of a group of U.S. scientists who in the coming months hope to wrest from the antarctic some of its best-kept secrets...
...back into Hungary, that he and his wing man had been chasing two escaping Hungarian pilots and, failing to shoot one down, had rammed it. The second Hungarian plane apparently got away, but where it landed (whether in West Germany or Yugoslavia) was one of the week's best-kept secrets...
...Secret. It was one of those grandly simple concepts that are the stuff of history. It was also the conference's best-kept secret. At the risk of ruffling allied feelings, not even Eden and Faure had been consulted in advance. They were as surprised as the Russians and the rest of the world...
...about to fold. Last week, in time's nick, the Graphic was saved. Publisher Kemsley sold it to Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch. "It's been the quickest deal I've ever known," said one Rothermere executive. "And the best-kept secret," Fleet Streeters hastened...