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...Calcutta for repairs. There Elinore, 39, who had been seasick all across the Atlantic, thought of the ocean travel ahead and decided to jump ship. Skipper Carlin ran advance ads in Australian newspapers for a replacement. All he wanted was a strong swimmer who was also a motor mechanic and a radio maintenance man and had enough money to repatriate himself from anywhere enroute. He got a 23-year-old Perth draftsman named Barry Hanley who knew something about small boats...
INTERCITY MONORAIL between Fort Worth and Dallas, which would cost about $500,000 a mile, is being considered by Monorail Inc. and Texas Motor Coaches. Experimental version of high-speed train, which runs on suspended rail supported by steel towers, has been operating in Houston...
...company newspaper to candidates of both parties, prints each party's statements verbatim. Johnson & Johnson, No. 1 U.S. maker of bandages and surgical dressings, has started a nonpartisan political-education program that has prompted 80 employees to hold political office in states where the company has plants. Ford Motor Co. last June sent out letters urging more than 12,000 management-level employees to take an "active, perceptive interest in candidates" and to devote "at least a portion of their available time to the party of their choice...
...anticipated, the field was clear. The squads concealed themselves in their chosen positions, and when the marked man came by, bullets were sent in his direction. The execution squad withdrew while the covering force protected its retreat, and the getaway to safety began. I started the motor of my car and drove away...
Disclaiming any plot to "Americanize" Killarney with motor boats or automobiles, Robertson, of Scottish-Irish descent, plans to summer in Killarney, winter in Florida...