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Safety in Diversity. Philip Morris Inc. (Marlboro, Parliament, Alpine) has already begun hedging against possible loss of cigarette sales by diversifying. Some 20% of its business last year was in razor blades (Pal, Gem), flexible packaging and polymer chemicals. P. Lorillard Co. (Kent, Old Gold, Newport, York) recently obtained permission from its stockholders to begin diversifying...
...such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...
Thurs., March 29 U.S. 1 (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A TV profile of the highway that runs from Fort Kent, Me., to Key West...
...Give Mac the sack," cried the crowds in Orpington, a longtime Tory stronghold in suburban Kent. In a mid-term by-election, the district was captured last week by a pugnacious, 33-year-old Liberal candidate who piled up a massive, 7,855-vote majority (total voters: 43,187) over an exceptionally able Conservative opponent. Following three other by-election setbacks for the party in a week, Orpington was the worst defeat that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives have suffered since they took office eleven years ago. Said Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "These are daggers thrust...
...royal family's third-string Kensington Palace has seldom made news since the Duchess of Kent had a daughter there in 1819-and even then no one suspected that the gel would one day be Queen of England and Empress of India. Last week Queen Victoria's birthplace was less happily back in the headlines. In the House of Commons, a Labor M.P. suggested tartly that "at this time, when there are thousands of homeless in London," the government showed "deplorable priority sense" in spending $238,000 in public funds to repair the palace for its new occupants...