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...Haul Away. Off Newport, R.I., Fishing Captain Lars Fahlen dragged a net across the ocean bottom, suddenly found his 65-ft. boat going full speed astern and had to chop his net cable to save his craft, learned later that he had almost been caught by the U.S. submarine Flying Fish...
...merger should be a happy marriage. Capital has routes crisscrossing ten Middle Atlantic and Southeastern states, does a lucrative short-haul business between New York, Chicago and Washington. But it gets comparatively few long-haul passengers because they prefer to take transcontinental lines. With Northwest's cross-country flights to Seattle-and its overseas arms to Honolulu and to Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Formosa and the Philippines-that pattern should change (see map). For its part, Northwest would cash in on Capital's Eastern business, and get a transcontinental route through Chicago, which it has long wanted...
...last year were $17.5 million, the count is notoriously coy about what he actually makes. His personal fortune tops $100 million. He is building a Roman Catholic cathedral. When his daughter Filomena (Fifi) got married a few years ago, he staged a fabulous reception, with special trains to help haul the 2,000 guests, and gold vanity-case souvenirs for all the ladies...
...there roadblocks ahead for all this expansion? Is it good for the long haul? Sáo Paulo's old support, agriculture, is in a decline. Lately, its industry's rate of productivity per worker has also slipped. Most important of all, its costs of production remain inefficiently high. That is mainly because Sáo Paulo's economy still operates on a high-profit, low-volume formula based on a haunting suspicion that the golden days might not last and the time to cash in is now. As long as São Paulo-made refrigerators...
...could wind up to fire another note of protest, a military court in Budapest this week handed down its decision: the four airmen had been tried, found guilty, fined $30,000 each or three months in jail. Hungary's ransom ring, which had made a lucrative haul in goods for the release of Businessman Robert Vogeler, was down to a simpler racket-a barefaced pursuit of hard cash...