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...debt and strapped for cash to carry out overdue modernization programs, the once mighty B. & O. has watched its revenues melt from $465 million in 1956 to $351 million in 1961, and seen its long string of profits turn into a 1961 loss of $31 million. By contrast, the go-ahead C. & O. earned a solid $35 million last year...
...after seven years of work and an outlay of $257 million, Rover is in trouble. Given a go-ahead in 1955, Project Rover was to have ground-tested a nuclear rocket engine by 1960; that date has been set back to 1964. The first flight was scheduled for 1965; it is now planned for 1967. It will be at least 1969 before the rocket will be hauling payloads through space...
...upper part was torn. Duty surgeon Dr. L. Henry Edmunds promptly spotted a chance for a historic operation. He started giving the boy two pints of blood, to combat shock, and antibiotics and tetanus shots to guard against infection. Then Dr. Ronald A. Malt, chief resident surgeon, gave the go-ahead order that called in all the specialists who would make the operation a major team effort...
After the North Atlantic Treaty meeting in Athens, the U.S. thought it had a reasonably clear go-ahead from its European allies to continue the probing talks with Moscow about Berlin. Not so. West Germany's craggy old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, determined to prevent any deal at his country's expense, last week suddenly attacked Secretary of State Dean Rusk's negotiations with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington. Grumped der Alte to a press conference in West Berlin: "I have not the slightest belief that any result will be achieved...
...Monday the Corporation gave the Graduate of Education the go-ahead on final contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), a co-sponsor of the pilot project Western Nigerian government...