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...wanted to go it alone, offered to buy B. & O. stock as the first step toward merger. Last week, as the C. & O. mailed its offer to B. & O. stockholders, New York Central President Alfred Perlman jumped into action. He appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission to con duct a study to establish new ground rules for Eastern rail mergers, hoping thus to block the other roads moves until he can strengthen his own position. He also said he wants to make an offer to B.&O. stockholders for 50% of the road's stock...
...Hayley's father, John Mills, is a well-known British cinemactor (Great Expectations, Tiger Bay); her mother, Mary Hayley Bell, is a successful British playwright (Men in Shadow, Duct for Two Hands); her 18-year-old sister, Juliet, is now playing on Broadway in Five Finger Exercise...
...battery.'' Or again, the script jerks the customer out of his socks with a gesture of almost electrocuting theatricality-knocked down by the fist of a Nazi brute, a priest struggles blindly to his feet, then firmly turns the other cheek. And even the most calcified tear duct will surely start to flow when Scenarist Presnell turns on the pathos-"What is your name?" a nun inquires of a tiny refugee who lifts her great dark eyes, surrounded by dark hollows of starvation, and sweetly replies...
...Captain Joe B. Jordan of Huntsville, Texas in a Lockheed F-104C. Altitude tries require lots of advance planning. The ship was considerably rejiggered. It got a slightly larger fin (which will be standard on new production models) to keep it from yawing in thin air, and the intake duct was modified. To prepare for the record-breaking flight, Lockheed and the Air Force worked out a new flight plan. They decided that the F-104C should climb only to 40,000 ft., where the air is still dense enough to give the jet maximum thrust. When the plane...
...scientists followed the waves halfway round the earth and then lost track of them. But since the Argus tests, the Fort Monmouth team has noticed other waves that travel in the same high duct of plasma, apparently started by electrified particles slamming in from the sun. The Signal Corps is continuing to study its newfound duct. But when its scientists are asked whether they hope to find practical uses in communication, their military chaperons stop the conversation...