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...plan into practice, they feared that he was trying to become a railroad czar. In the House of Com mons last week, Minister of Transport Tom Fraser said that Beeching's offer to make a comprehensive study of all transportation problems "would not be practical," and Labor members demanded that unions be brought in on decisions to lay off workers and shut down lines. Beeching would brook no such interference. When he failed to win assurances of a hands-off policy, he dumped the whole railroad problem into the lap of Labor...
...months, generated more than 270 windy speeches, produced the longest continuous session of Parliament in Canadian history, and all but divided a nation. Last week the debate over a national flag for Canada finally ended. By a vote of 163 to 78 in the House of Com mons, and 38 to 23 in the Senate, Canada's Parliament approved what Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson calls a flag for all Canadians. All that remained was for Queen Elizabeth to proclaim the new flag as the official emblem of Canada. Then down will come the old Red Ensign with...
...able to raise its capital-spending figures by $50 million to $350 million, 80% of which will be spent in the U.S. Ford hiked its program 50% , will spend $400 million at home and $300 million overseas, although President Arjay Miller said that strike-incurred losses had cost the com pany 10% of its potential earnings in 1964. General Motors' Donner and President John Gordon raised earlier plans to spend $1 billion to $1.1 billion, 20% more than 1964; 75% will be spent in the U.S. Part of G.M.'s capital spending for the next few years will...
...proposition that tooth-and-claw battles take place every day in the wild kingdom. We would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands a few points ahead of its nearest com petition, the American Football League game of the week. But filming wildlife in the veld is dicey business at best. Expeditions have fanned out to Africa, India, South America, Australia, Alaska and Canada for this season's footage, and 12,000 ft. of film are required for every...
Ford's passenger car production is al ready 75% below capacity and unless the walkout ends this week, said President Arjay Miller, the nation's fourth biggest company will screech to a com plete stop. The U.A.W. aggravated the problem by also striking Mack Trucks and White Motor...