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...Haven is a short-haul line through a densely populated area, with heavy commuter loads and relatively little freight. To make it pay, Dumaine has tried to chop down costs and at the same time modernize the road to attract business. Many of the big, barnlike stations of the '20s have been replaced by revenue-producing business blocks; Dumaine money built a $50 million marketing center in congested Boston near the South Station that draws some $200 million yearly in various businesses and fat contracts for the New Haven to haul the goods. At a cost of $70 million...
...nearby island of Doonidu. The two cousins installed themselves in charge. Piece by piece, some details of the bloodless coup reached Ceylon. The deposed President, said Ibrahim Mohammed, was still being kept under guard on Doonidu "for safekeeping"; the main islands apparently were thick with people who wanted to chop Amin Didi's hands off, preferably at the neck. Also, added Ibrahim Mohammed, the people were beginning to long for the quiet old days of the sultanate. Ibrahim Mohammed thought that he himself might be a logical choice for next Sultan. But there remained Amin Didi...
...choices of daily life with scientific generality . . . The power of words over nature, which has played such a role in human history, is now an exploded belief, a dead emotion. Far from words controlling things, it is now things that dictate words. As soon as science was able to chop up the physical world and recombine it in new forms, language followed suit...
...Force cutbacks will chop from 2,000 to 6,000 engines off firm orders already on corporate books. The cuts were made to bring engine production in line with overall reductions in plane production and the reduced Air Force flying program (TIME, Sept. 14). Another reason for the cut: jet engines have been improved to such an extent that not so many spare engines are needed. Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott explained that the flying time of a jet, without an overhaul, was originally estimated at 100 hours. But the new engines run for more than 250 hours. Said Defense...
...BACARDI CUBA LIBRE HAS LESS CALORIES THAN A LAMB CHOP. In Los Angeles, a beer ad urged: DON'T GO TO WAIST DRINK REGAL PALE. In New York. Minneapolis and five other cities, Stouffer's restaurants offered special low-calorie lunches; the Pennsylvania Railroad had a 470-calorie "Streamliner" on its dining-car menus. Domino Sugar asked a "diet-conscious public to recognize that three teaspoons of sugar actually contain fewer calories than half a grapefruit . . . or an apple ... or even three small tomatoes...