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...year of Churchill's life. Sixty Highland bagpipers from different Scottish regiments piped the coffin down to the wharf at the foot of Tower Hill where Beefeaters in full uniform stood guard. Against the backdrop of Tower Bridge the vast Pool of London lay as still as an inland lake. Across the river great cranes bowed low in touching, mechanical precision. To the piping of a bo'sun's whistle, the coffin went aboard the Havengore, a Royal Navy launch...
...defray the additional $5.8 billion that will be needed to finish the 41,000-mile federal highways system. It also asks $240 million more in taxes on aviation fuels and the flourishing air-freight business, and a continuation of the 5% surcharge on airline passenger tickets. Truckers, airlines and inland-waterway operators, the last of which would have to pay a new fuel tax amounting to $7,000,000 a year, will probably oppose most of the measures, as they have before. If Congress approves the new charges, however, the operators may pass along many of them to their customers...
...roadbed for conventional or elevated equipment would be best located along a line some distance inland from the coast. Land would be cheaper here and special access routes could be built to serve the major cities...
Controlled Chaos. Albright also insists that live models be present while he paints. Among them have been a Mexican-Indian fisherman, a union leader and onetime bootlegger, an 81-year-old Rosicrucian monk, and Mary Lasker Block, the wife of a vice president of Inland Steel...
...Defense Is Ready. From its 19-story, stainless-steel headquarters in Chicago's Loop, Inland is run by another highly concentrated facility of a sort: Chairman Joseph Block, 62, whose grandfather founded the company in 1893. A pipe-smoking intellectual who surrounds himself and his colleagues with modern art, Block angered competitors in 1962 by holding the price line during the steel crisis. Although he recently came out for steel price rises now, Block is realistic enough to admit that "I don't think there is much likelihood of an across-the-board increase any time soon...