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...ready for the athletes and the crowds. Last gaps in the new $55 million monorail from refurbished Haneda air port to downtown Tokyo Station are being closed. Partially completed elevated highways have cut the road time from airport to city to 40 minutes or so. The high-speed railway that will carry passengers the 300 miles from Tokyo to Osaka in three hours is ready to run-but company officials must figure out how to curb suicide-minded Nipponese who want to be among the first to fling themselves under the fascinating wheels...
...Spain, like other European na tions before it, has at least reached the takeoff point. The 8,344-mile national railway system is being overhauled at a cost of $1 billion. Unemployment has dropped from 8% in 1959 to 1.5%. About 400,000 men are working in neighboring nations, and the $193 million they sent home last year, along with tourist income, more than offset a chronic trade deficit...
...Caterpillars. Owen was born in sleepy Shropshire. His father was a railway engineer; his mother had a taste for culture. Shy, moody, frail, Owen began writing melancholy, softly sensuous verse in his teens, dealing generally with "golden gardens and sweet glooms." Since his family did not have the money to send him to college, he went to France as a tutor. While there, war broke out. Owen had no desire to get involved. He wrote his mother: "I feel my own life all the more precious and dear in the presence of this deflowering of Europe...
...Proud of You Fellows." No sooner had Johnson returned to the White House than an issue of national urgency came before him. He was informed that railway management and labor negotiators were nearing a settlement in their longstanding dispute. For days the President had overseen the efforts of the negotiators, who had set up shop in the Executive Office Building next door to the White House. Johnson used a number of persuasive techniques-including an appeal to the negotiators' patriotism that, to some, grew a little tiresome. Said a weary union vice president when a reporter asked him what...
...Battlefield. And so to bed? Not on anybody's tintype. For even as he was preparing to meet with the railway negotiators after his flight from the fair, Johnson had another idea. He recalled that he had an engagement to fly to Chicago the next afternoon to speak to Mayor Dick Daley, the Democratic boss, and his minions. Why not expand the tour? No sooner said than done...