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In Kenya, where officials hoped the whole thing would blow over soon, compensation (between $300 and $600) was promised to families of the victims and the government announced that a commission from Britain would study Kenya's prison-camp system. Last week authorities let Kenya newspapermen fly into the...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came a 121-page prescription for restoring the health of the nation's railroads. Rejecting a prognosis by ICC Hearing Examiner Howard Hosmer that if the present rate of passenger-traffic decline continues, Pullman service will end by 1965 and coach service...
The ICC ducked perhaps the hottest issue involved in the railroads' financial difficulties: union featherbedding. After reporting that conductors, brakemen, engineers, firemen, et al. in 1958 worked on the average only 57% of the hours for which they were paid, against 64% in 1947, the commission lamely concluded that...
The funds have become so popular that they have blossomed with all kinds of new plans. The most controversial plan-and one that M.I.T. has shunned-is the contractual plan, under which a customer signs for regular monthly payments over a period of years (usually ten). The catch is that...
Died. Oswald D. Heck, 57, popular, powerful, longtime (23 years) Republican speaker of the New York state assembly, who ruled the often unruly legislators with fair play and wit, pushed through controversial measures (State Commission Against Discrimination, compulsory auto insurance, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's tough tax program); of a...