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...world's longest gas pipeline is going to be built across Canada. This was announced last week by Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe after a four-day conference in Ottawa with officials of two pipeline companies. Canadian-owned Western Pipe Lines Ltd., which had sought permission to transport Alberta's natural gas to Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which wanted to build an all Canadian line, had agreed to merge. The new combine will build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Princess, Alta. to Toronto and Montreal. The pipeline will...
Republican Padrutt, 36, an ex-schoolteacher from Chippewa Falls who had served in the legislature for 13 years, sold his photographic supply shop to make the race for Congress. He conducted an active campaign, had the help of a four-day tour in his behalf by Republican Governor Walter Kohler. He said little about the farm issue until late in the campaign. Then he blamed the farm squeeze-rising cost of living and falling farm prices-on old Democratic policies, and promised to help develop a better plan. He campaigned on the President's coattails: "Help Ike to help...
...Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which had the practical end of uniting the Greeks and Italians in pledges of friendship...
...Washington, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. waived the restrictions of the McCarran Act for a Russian chess team, including World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, which will arrive in Manhattan this week for a four-day match with top U.S. players...
...Great White Marabout. Gaunt, subject to fainting spells, he traveled endlessly about the desert, often acting as chaplain for French troops and walking while they rode camels. On one such caravan trip, a fierce sandstorm blotted up all water holes within the radius of a four-day march. When a brackish little mudhole was finally found, Foucauld said his rosary and made no effort to drink until forced to do so. "Christ was much more thirsty on the cross!" he explained...