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...losing interest in watching news reports or reading them. In his article, Tsvetov told of the intense curiosity of Soviet audiences in asking him what Japan and its people were really like. He confessed that in his own reporting from Tokyo, a one-hour work stoppage on a suburban rail line would become "a class battle," while a concert by a group of Soviet amateur musicians would be portrayed as a "triumph of Soviet art that shook Japan." Tsvetov concluded by calling on Soviet journalists to rid themselves of the "stereotyped mentality that forces them to describe news events only...
Norfolk Southern, the nation's fourth largest railway, conceded defeat last week in its 18-month-long bid to buy Conrail, the now profitable Government- owned rail system. Early last year Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole had selected Norfolk Southern as the best qualified of 15 bidders to buy Conrail's freight-hauling business for $1.2 billion. Last February the Senate approved, and the much bruited merger seemed to be on track...
...willowy wife in mind, were cut so lean in the seat and thighs that Women's Wear Daily called the fit "impossible" for regular-size folks. Some department stores were stunned at Lauren's demand that they include in their displays so many props. Among them: cacti, split-rail fences and wagon wheels. Lauren soon moved on to other themes...
...racing, run on an 85-ft. sawdust oval track, and the porkers do not dawdle: the swiftest swine cross the finish line in 5 or 6 sec. In his best Kentucky Derby style, Holding calls the race: "Pigmalion's first out of the box, with the lead on the rail. Hamtrak settles into second, with Flying Frank third." Suddenly his voice rises excitedly: "Here comes Boaris Karloff on the outside, closing fast around the final turn!" Holding is drowned out by the shouts of the crowd as the pack pounds down the stretch to the finish, where a chocolate-cream...
...London meeting, Zimbabwe was negotiating to extend its existing trade agreement with South Africa. Over the long term the black states can reduce their dependence on the South African ports of Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin to divert freight from South Africa to Mozambique over roads and rail lines that are frequently sabotaged by Mozambican rebels supported from inside South Africa. But for the moment Pretoria's black neighbors are exceedingly vulnerable...