Word: northern
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Their losses have been large. In clashes last week alone, the Communists lost 54 dead at Gio Linh near the Demilitarized Zone in the northern province of Quang Tri, 56 near Danang, 471 at Bong Son in the center of the country along the coast, 143 north of Saigon, 39 northwest of the capital, and 501 in the Mekong Delta in the south. In all, 65 Americans and 78 South Vietnamese died in the battles. Meanwhile, Ho's homeland was heavily pounded last week by U.S. fighter-bombers. As monsoon clouds cleared for the first time in three weeks...
...ironically, has discouraged and dismayed many Americans. The people are fragmented into a multiplicity of racial, regional, religious and political groups and sects. It is quite possible that in most election districts, the candidate of the dominant group-Buddhist or Catholic, Cao Dai or Hoa Hao, Southern native or Northern refugee-would beat the Communist...
...suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English," says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history, no man could be considered cultivated if he had not gone out to engage the art, philosophy and manners of the Latin countries." Housebound in their in creasingly tight little island, the English, with a curtailed foreign-travel allowance, could afford perhaps the book, but hardly the travel...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last week agreed to a railroad merger that will have everything going for it except euphony. The commission, reversing its own antimerger order of 20 months ago, approved the creation of the Great Northern Pacific & Burlington Lines, Inc. The new road fuses the present Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy along with smaller subsidiaries, including the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and the Pacific Coast Railroad. With 24,600 miles of track stretching across more than a quarter of the nation, the G.N.P. & B. will be the U.S.'s longest railroad. Consolidated revenues...
...West Coast, with savings in time and money for both the railroad and its shippers. After that will come capital outlays for an electronic freight yard in Minneapolis and expanded freight facilities in Spokane and Seattle. As projected, the management lineup-which could stand some streamlining-would have Great Northern President John M. Budd as chairman and chief executive of the new company, Burlington President William J. Quinn as vice chairman, and Northern Pacific President Louis W. Menk as president...