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While Republicans bickered, new Democratic Big Wheel Pat Brown rolled merrily eastward for conferences with party hierarchy. He was received in Washington as a man who already had November under his belt. Said he, blinking through his half-rimmed spectacles: "I'm not used to anything like this." Then, remembering his role as the wave of the future, he added: "But I will...
...tear gas, guns and ammunition so that the Lebanese government could control insurrection, speeded up a shipment of tanks, sent 18 C124 transports from Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina to West Germany to be within easy range of Lebanon. It also sent two Sixth Fleet amphibious units eastward in the Mediterranean with 3,600 Marines, ready if needed to back up U.S. Ambassador Robert McClintock's word that "We are determined to help this government maintain internal security...
...Atlantic Coast that acts as a protective buffer to icy arctic blasts. This winter, because of abnormal patterns in the high altitude winds (TIME, Jan. 20), the Bermuda high has been flubbing its job. Result: successive masses of polar air have flowed down the Mississippi Valley and eastward, spreading out to reach deep into Florida, to bring abnormal cold and, in the clash with tropical air masses, heavy rains and snows...
...stream high overhead was still moving unusually fast, and it got an extra push from the two near-hurricanes that had formed when cold air from the north mixed with tropical air. A British weather ship stationed 600 miles west of Ireland reported a 230-mile wind blowing eastward at 34,000 ft. Transatlantic airliners, hooking rides on it, broke record after record. A turboprop Britannia of British Overseas Airways made the first commercial New York-London flight in under eight hours. A few days later an El Al Israel Airlines Britannia rode the jet wind from New York...
Most trunk lines will ask for increases on all but about 30 of 256 commodities. Coal will probably get hit, and the Western roads want higher rates for their eastward shipments of farm goods, lumber and lumber products. Even the 25 Class I Southern roads, which have traditionally rebelled against stiff rate increases for fear of losing business to trucks, plan to join in the request, even though they may not seek boosts for pulpwood, tobacco, alcoholic drinks. Finally, all the rails are expected to petition for higher charges for loading and unloading export-import freight, and for permission...