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...Dickens' description of Broadstairs, but old friends remember young Heath as rather nobody. While other boys played on the beach, he preferred to read indoors or practice on the battered upright in the Heaths' front room. He grew up in a semidetached, six-room house beside the railway tracks that shudders every time a train passes, and he returns there at every opportunity. Each year, he still organizes and directs a Christmas concert, known as "Our Carol Party" in Broadstairs, that he started in 1936 to raise funds for charity...
...woman from West Berlin got off the train at the scarred old East Berlin railway station, carrying a heavy suitcase filled with butter and cheese, along with a great sack of cabbages and potatoes. The young nephew who met her shouted: "Why are you bringing all this food? Don't you know that we have everything we need here in the German Democratic Republic?" His sarcastic words were greeted by loud guffaws from the bystanders, including Red German police. A few months ago, it could not have happened that way; the man would have been arrested, the food confiscated...
...smoking jacket and a blue mood, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, watched the national election returns as they flashed on the TV screen in his private railway car in Prince Albert, Sask. After eight weeks of flameless campaigning, his private estimate was that his Conservative Party would win 140 seats-not as many as the record 203 seats he held going into the election, but enough to give him a bare majority in the 265-seat House of Commons. He wound up with only 118 seats, and as a minority government would have to accept outside support...
Misguided Dogs. On the first day of the Franche-Comte tour, police arrested six persons charged with being part of an S.A.O. commando intending to assassinate De Gaulle. Police claimed the plotters had hoped to plant explosives at a railway underpass near Vesoul and blow up the presidential auto as it went through. Imitating smugglers, the S.A.O. group were also reported to have trained bomb-carrying dogs to respond to ultrasonic whistles: they could then be directed near De Gaulle in a crowd and the bombs exploded by remote control...
...Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railway, is one of the few railroad men who believe that commuters should be treated at least as well as cattle, even if they represent less profit. Noting that during rush hours, bicycles and roller skates are faster than taxis on the Chicago streets, Heineman looked about for some way to speed the final lap of the journey for the commuters his trains had delivered to North Western's Madison Street station. Said he: "We discovered one completely unused 'expressway' right in the heart of the city. It is wider...