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United has CAB permission to drop eight cities on Capital's unprofitable short-haul runs. The new giant will serve 117 cities, spread across the U.S. in a rough H. To handle this 18,000-mile network in streamlined fashion. United al ready has on order 20 twin-jet French Caravelles, 40 Boeing 727s, six more DC-8s and eleven more Boeing 720s. These, plus Capital's Viscounts, will give United the biggest jet fleet in the nation...
flatcars that are helping them win back a big slice of the new-car hauling business lost to truckers. Once, the railroads moved 75% of all new autos. But the truckers devised efficient trailers that undercut railroad charges, by 1959 had left the rails only 8% of the business. Now the rails are grabbing a bigger share by charging only half as much as truckers on long hauls. One reason: on a cross-country haul, each flatcar replaces at least three high-wage truck drivers. By year's end, Ford expects to ship 35% of its cars by rail...
Some variations on the St. Olaf theme, however, would indicate that the College is concerned with helping parents and students budget the four-year haul. One Administration official dismissed the idea as "unfeasible" because, he said, the College can not forsee tuition rises at all. University economists maintain, however, that they can estimate fairly accurately when and how much tuition must rise to meet advancing costs...
...Baker, 54, slight, mild-mannered onetime dental technician and professional burglar whose 26-year career was capped in January 1950, when he and ten teammates smoothly robbed the Brink's armored car service office in Boston's old North End of $2,775,395 for the largest haul in U.S. history, went to jail for life with seven others in 1956; of bronchial pneumonia; in a Norfolk (Mass.) prison hospital...
...tribesmen starving in remote Kasai province. Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua, picked up food pledged by other governments. On the way back, the planes would help haul out the Moroccan, U.A.R. and Guinean troops that the dissident politicians of Africa had ordered home...