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...four among the states (see map) are still New York (up 12% but due to lose three Congressmen because the increase does not match the national average), Pennsylvania (up 7%, due to lose three), California (up 47%, due to gain eight) and Illinois (up 15%, due to lose one). Fastest-growing Florida (up 77%) jumped from 20th to tenth state to win four new House seats...
...Hamilton Watch Co. Nonetheless, three staunchly anticapitalist preview visitors were impressed; they were reporters from the Soviet Union's Tass news agency. Last week the Kremlin announced plans for a Moscow amusement park-to be called either Wonderland or Pioneer Republic-built on a huge relief map of Russia. Of course it will feature rocket models and a space ship...
Last week one of the two known surviving copies of the global map turned up for sale at London's famed auction house, Sotheby & Co. Owned by a Polish count, the map (11⅜ in. by 16⅜ in.) roused a gleam in the eye of Manhattan Rare Book Dealer Hans P. Kraus. He pushed the price up to $35,000 and walked off with the map...
...high price of ancient manuscripts by plunking down $64,000 on the same day for an old (1480) French-English text, a first edition issued by William Caxton, England's first printer. The British Museum is already nibbling for the Caxton book, but Kraus intends to bring the map "home" to the U.S., hopes to sell it to the Library of Congress, "so Americans can see where their land was named...
...Pennsylvania. Another road deeply interested in the C. & O. merger is the New York Central. It has been talking to the two roads about a three-way merger that would make the biggest U.S. railroad, web the Eastern states with a network touching almost all major cities (see map...