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While the government fumed, the Sumatran army headquarters continued last week to dispatch nightly caravans of heavily guarded trucks to small northern ports where 16 small-tonnage ships waited to smuggle the rubber across the narrow Malacca Strait. The government was helpless: the army alone has the authority to stop smuggling...
...brass has been huddling with Soviet diplomats in Washington, biting away at technical questions, e.g., maintenance facilities, fuel storage, radio navigation aids, passenger and baggage facilities. The Russians, who instigated the talks and appear willing to grant berthing privileges in other cities of the U.S.S.R., invited Pan Am to dispatch its top technicians to Moscow and settle other traffic problems on the spot...
Also named were Marvin Wall, reporter for the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger, which won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize; William Worthy, correspondent for Afro-American and CBS; and Lawson M. Wright, a reporter on the Richmond Times-Dispatch...
...anywhere in the U.S. Built for the low cost of $16,000 per bed, the hospitals were designed for maximum efficiency, minimum operating cost. Each "chain-store" hospital is laid out around a central service core, from which food and drugs move by assembly belt and dumb-waiter to dispatch stations on every floor. A centralized administration and service center at Williamson, W. Va. will keep the books and do the housekeeping, e.g., maintenance, filling of prescriptions, laundry, for the whole system. Thus the cost of administering the medical program has been cut to 5.4% of the $42.8 million total...
...last time Tito saw Paris was as an undercover Communist agent during the Spanish civil war. Traveling on forged papers as a Czech named Jaromir Havlicek, he set up headquarters in a Left Bank fleabag to arrange the dispatch of 1,500 Yugoslav volunteers to fight for Loyalist Spain. The police kept...