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...everybody the illusion that it would live more or less happily ever after. Then Elden Hathaway turned 65, thought some, and quietly sold for $50,000 the stock in the business he had bought for $2,500 in 1951. Elden: who had strung Army field wire at $14 a mile to add to the 100 or so subscribers he began with. Elden: who had tinkered with one secondhand switchboard after another-Western Electric, Stromberg-Carlson, Northern Electric. Elden: who had pulled himself out of bed to man the phones more midnights than he cares to remember, wakened by a night...
...they did in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel has occupied since 1967. The Lebanese note that although Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared shortly after the invasion of Lebanon last June that Israel did not want any Lebanese territory, Jerusalem has insisted that a 25-mile-wide strip inside the Lebanese border be subject to international guarantees under a multinational force. To complicate matters, the Israelis have said that they will not leave until the estimated 30,000 Syrian troops that are based in the Bekaa Valley withdraw from Lebanon. The Israelis have strongly hinted that...
...hour, 926-mile London-to-Venice trip, the train leaves Victoria Station at 11:44 a.m. each Friday and Sun day. The northbound V.S.O.E. leaves Venice's Santa Lucia Station at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday and Wednesday. The English segment of the train, which does not cross the channel, consists of seven chocolate-and-cream cars that were built for the old Orient Express. They have comfortable English names like Audrey and Agatha (not for Miss Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express) or else daunting classical appellations like Perseus and Phoenix. Some English passengers are greeted...
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant. The Government hopes to sell 1,300 acres of this 23,000-acre compound 50 miles southwest of Chicago. Last year the expendable acreage was leased to local farmers for $750,000; they used it to grow corn, hay, soybeans and other crops, and to graze livestock. Farmers like John Nugent of Manhattan, Ill., who now rents some of the land for $95 per acre, are interested in buying "if the price is right." Harold Holz, who manages the land for the Uniroyal Corp. under a federal contract, says that the grazing land is worth around...
...comparison with depressed Vegas, the Atlantic City casinos are booming. Since 1978, when gambling was made legal, nine casinos have opened on the four-mile-long Boardwalk, and two more are on the way. Located within 300 miles of 50 million people, and an easy drive from New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore, Atlantic City draws a less sophisticated crowd than its more cosmopolitan Western rival. Many people come to Atlantic City for only a few hours, in fact, changing clothes in their cars before the evening's show. Others arrive by bus; some 200,000 buses disgorged passengers...