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average of 3.87?). What was hard to swallow was the realization that if Beech-ing succeeds in adapting to modern needs and techniques a 50,000-mile network designed for the 1880s, scores of branch lines and hundreds of its 7,000 stations will disappear. The last of the beloved "puffing billies" will yield to gaseous diesels or electric locomotives, and the aromatic privacy of the old first-class passenger compartment will give way to open, air-conditioned cars with central aisles, airliner seats and Muzak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dr. Beeching's Bitter Pill | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Where's the Standout? Washington feels uneasy because business is expand ing only about one-fourth as fast as it did at the beginning of the recovery. Two-thirds of the current recovery was made in the four months from March through June of 1961 v. only one-third in the eight months from July through February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Strong -- But Sluggish | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...ing farewell last night at the Quinase Africa Forum, he told an audience of six that the chaos in the Congo caused by the intense desire of the ese for change, coupled with the trained leadership...

Author: By Ronald J. Greene, | Title: Van Bilsen Sees Need for Growth in Congo | 3/15/1962 | See Source »

...Este . The alliance is not "just a giving away of money," he noted. The official repeated the formal United position that President Kennedy responsibility for any American in the April invasion of . However, he referred the group Theodore Draper's article in the New and Encounter for accurate ing of the invasion...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Rusk Sees Hope In Geneva Talks | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

India's leftists accuse Swatantra of be ing "feudal'' and "socially backward" because it is supported by a clutch of princes and princesses, most notable of whom is the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur, who is Swatantra Party boss in Rajasthan (TIME, Nov. 10). Ignored is the fact that there are more princes and zamindars (feudal landlords) in Congress than in the Swatantra. Despite the cry that Swatantra is the "millionaires' party," C.R. has been generally unsuccessful in attracting financial support from India's richest corporations. Right-wing businessmen instead contribute generously to Congress, for obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Tea-Fed Tiger | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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