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BOSTON HERALD: THERE are many indications that the big factor in the vote was not Democratic bossism or Republican indifference but agrarian discontent. Senator Kefauver outbid Mr. Stevenson on the issue dearest to the rural voter, farm aid. The Republicans would do well to pay more attention to farm sentiment and putting across their essentially constructive farm policies...
...rambunctious newcomer among Midwest railroaders is Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman, 42. Less than two years ago, he won a proxy fight for control of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, has since boosted earnings per share 14% to $2.35. He is also trying to outbid the Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania for little Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, a main bypass around Chicago for transcontinental freight. Last week Heineman announced that he is after a much bigger prize: the long (7,870 miles) and longtime ailing Chicago & North Western Railway, which runs from Chicago to Lander...
Green Light. Competition for gamblers' choice is intense between the five (out of six) state governments in the lottery business. Last week Tasmania, smallest state in the Commonwealth, in an effort to outbid rivals, paid out the top lottery prize to date: a whopping $562,500 (tax free, as are all lottery prizes in Australia...
...effect, said Daoud, Afghanistan is still free "to shop" with the West. The hint was heavily underlined: the Afghans, who like to think of themselves as the Orient's wiliest wheeler-dealers, were inviting the U.S. (which has already granted Afghanistan credits amounting to some $50 million) to outbid the Communists...
...deal themselves in at the big auctions must be willing to pay up to $25.000 for a painting. When the really big collectors decide to show their hands, the price can go over the $100.000 mark, as it did when France's Mme. Jean Walter paid $113.000 to outbid Swiss Gun Manufacturer Emil Buhrle for a Cezanne still life, Pommes et Biscuits, at the 1952 Gabriel Cognacq sale in Paris...