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...Whatever the turnout, the Peace Action Council of Southern California, which claims some 60 member organizations, promises that the dinner will at least set one new record. When Johnson makes his first political appearance in the Golden State since 1964, says the group, he will be greeted by "the largest antiwar demonstration in history...
Quilts & Space Seats. Such light, sentimental touches delight many overseas visitors. "The largest industrial nation of the world does not exhibit one single automobile, supersonic plane or computer," marveled the Frankfurter Allgemeine. "They are not trying to educate or boast; they are just pleasing." Oslo's Aftenposten agreed, called the exhibits "a breath from another world...
Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El, the world's largest Jewish congregation, has long been an uncomfortable maverick in the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, a federation of 680 Reform synagogues. The temple was initially reluctant to join the union; over the years, its leaders have opposed a number of U.A.H.C. actions, including a decision to create a Religious Action Center in Washington...
...participating," said R. J. Bruning, editor-publisher of the Northern Idaho Press, who is also president of two small mining firms. "We're all muckers-and we all own mining stocks." Many big mining companies have doubled their exploration budgets and Hecla Mining, the country's largest silver producer, is gambling $2,500,000 on deepening a single mine to 9,100 ft. "We're more optimistic than ever about the future of silver," said Hecla Chairman L. J. Randall. The same feeling spread to the New York Stock Exchange, where silver shares climbed rapidly...
...holding company. In quick succession, Greyhound picked up an industrial catering company that feeds workers at General Motors, hospitals and other institutions, a Manhattan fire and casualty insurance company, a Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries Ltd. in Winnipeg, Canada, three years ago, after the Justice Department beefed about Greyhound's once heavy reliance on General Motors...