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...Never before, said Conductor David Moore, had he traveled so fast. Moore's train, the Transcontinental Express, which crosses Australia's desert thrice weekly, was not supposed to exceed 40 m.p.h., but as it roared through the scheduled stop at Deakin one day last month, Moore clocked its speed at a breakneck 72 m.p.h. Passengers caught in the aisles of the six-car train were thrown to the floor as it rocked and swayed. Those who kept their seats had to dodge an avalanche of baggage falling from the racks above their heads...
Engineer Leahy last week followed Conductor Moore to the stand in a Port Pirie police court and explained his rocketing ride. He had failed to stop at Deakin, he said, for the simple reason that he had fallen asleep at the controls and the fireman had failed to wake him. The business of lying on the tracks was merely a routine inspection of the locomotive's underpinnings. As for the blondes, they were the fireman's guests, not his. "Girls," snarled Engineer Leahy, sounding now as though he meant it, "don't interest...
...officer to parachute into Yugoslavia,* worked so closely with Tito that the two were once wounded by the same bomb explosion. After the war, a lieutenant colonel with a D.S.O., he returned to Wadham, also began helping Churchill with his famed war memoirs. Last week 36-year-old Bill Deakin took over as Warden of St. Antony...
Trouble in the Drains. So far, Warden Deakin had neither staff, students nor furniture-"just six files and me." He still had a great deal of remodeling to do to get ready for Michaelmas term in October. Then, "after getting all the drains settled," he would have to pick a permanent committee of British and French scholars to select his students...
...much the same as that of other Oxonians, its emphasis will be on European history and economics. And now & then, after things get started at St. Antony's, M. Besse himself will drive up in his big car to offer his advice. "I shall welcome it," says Warden Deakin. "He's an extraordinary man ... a genius...