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Bouncing over Africa's mountains in chartered DC-3s and over its hills in Jeeps, dead tired, 15 Ibs. lighter than when he started, and with recurring eye trouble, Billy Graham wound up his seven-week "Safari for Souls" last week, still going at a pace that often left his followers limp. His only major difficulty was insomnia, and he remarked that he spent most of his sleepless hours in prayer: "I figure God had some reason for keeping me awake...
More surprising but less illuminating were some random facts: most pedestrian deaths occurred on straight streets with no unusual obstructions, and in good weather (though in rain and poor visibility, the toll increased). Except for the Bowery, heavily congested business districts had fewer fatalities than residential areas with lighter traffic...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Dirigible" tells the story of ships lighter than air, from early balloons to the 1937 Hindenburg tragedy, and on to their use by the U.S. Navy today...
...works in wood "because it is warm and alive, lighter than stone and cheaper than bronze." Baskin gives his figures all the unadorned monumentality he can, tries to capture the most elemental aspects of man's life. Like the sculptured gods of Egypt and Sumeria, his figures are still, withdrawn, awesome. Yet they also express a sharply contrasting sense of the ordinary and everyday. He casts fat, simple, dull-seeming people in the roles of gods and heroes. Except for his owl, and the timelessness it symbolizes, the Seated Man might be riding a subway...
FIRST ALUMINUM freight cars started service for the Southern Railway System. The cars are lighter, cheaper to operate; Southern has ordered 1,205 for some $24 million...