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...crack Panama Limited slowed for a laggard signal. From his starched collar to his shiny black shoes, the stocky, craggy-faced passenger was obviously a farmer returning from the city, impatient to see how many inches the corn had grown in his absence, begrudging every precious second of daylight lost in transit. Finally, 172 miles and 155 minutes out of Chicago, the train glided to a halt at Mattoon, III., and the fretful passenger hopped...
...were 162 sexual assaults in the District of Columbia. This figures out at 20 per 100,000 population-roughly double the national average. Last month a teen-age Negro hid behind a stairwell door in the State Department Building, grabbed a 40year-old secretary around the breasts in broad daylight, fled when she screamed. Security guards were late in responding because they had been called to another part of the building to investigate an attempted purse-snatching. Last week additional guards were assigned to the building, and the head of the department's Passport Office, Miss Frances G. Knight...
Flying under wartime conditions is predictably difficult. Because civilian travel is banned at night, all flights must be crammed into daylight hours. At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, the company's planes must queue up on the runways and wait their turn with long lines of Vietnamese Skyraiders and U.S. jet fighters, revving up for missions against the Reds. But the company has compiled a fair record of promptness and safety (one crash, in 1962), and its cabin service is noted in the Far East. First-class passengers dine on steaks, French wines and cheeses, served...
...speech expressing the U.S.'s willingness to enter into "unconditional discussions." By conservative estimate, U.S. and South Vietnamese flyers have knocked out 16 key bridges, badly damaged the principal north-south highway, and forced the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese to order a halt to almost all daylight operations...
...Daylight Savings Time traditionally begins tomorrow morning, the time pieces of the land should be turned ahead one hour. "Or is it back?" Tom asked dazedly. "Ahead, for more hours on the banks of the Charles," she smiled, sunnily...