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...antitrust prosecution), by several states and by some stockholders, but the recent record shows that the ICC usually follows its examiners' recommendations. It has approved six other rail mergers in the last five years and rejected none, seems wisely determined to regroup competition-pressed U.S. roads into a hardier handful of regional superroads...
Most of the million visitors who crowd into Ocean City, Md., each summer go there to rest, and for them miniature golf counts as a strenuous sport. But Ocean City also lures a hardier type: the sport fisherman. Hotel phone operators spot him easily: he is the fel low who asks to be called at 5 a.m., and again at 5:30, "just to make sure." By 6:30, he has gobbled down break fast, swallowed a Dramamine pill, and scoured the sleeping town for a six-pack of cold beer. Half an hour later, he is aboard a motorboat...
...anticipating the new. In the spirit of the season. Cinema Critic Brad Darrach, with his usual mixture of slyness and seriousness, picks the best films of 1961, and TIME'S book reviewers make their collective judgment on the best books of the year. Another of TIME'S hardier traditions is the year-end business review. It attempts to say where we've been and where we're going. This year the review pays special note to a facet of the economy that has long been underestimated: the impact of automation and computers on businessmen...
...university is the brain center of the state. It houses the Minneapolis Symphony, the Twin Cities' main longhair radio station, a theater, a natural history museum. From the university's labs have come hardier hogs, wheat and strawberries. By developing a way to extract iron ore from low-grade taconite. the university helped save northern Minnesota's depleted Mesabi Range...
...healthier than women, in the sense that they complain of fewer illnesses and stay home from work less often. But women are hardier and live longer. Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., 41, reporting this seemingly contradictory finding (by a New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center research team), explains it thus: women have fewer of the serious disorders (notably heart and artery diseases) that kill men in their prime...