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...Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the nation's biggest soft-coal carrier, offered to buy the stock of the Baltimore & Ohio as "the first step toward merger." The railroads have more than 11,000 miles of track and assets of $2.3 billion, would displace the Southern Pacific in the No. 2 spot, and rank only below the Pennsylvania. Another road deeply interested in the C. & O. merger is the New York Central. It has been talking to the two roads about a three-way merger that would make the biggest U.S. railroad, web the Eastern states with a network touching almost...
...interested," says Alan Hovhaness, "only in serenity of the mind." In his search for it, Composer Hovhaness is traveling around the world, and during the trip-working in railway coaches, airplanes, steamy hotel rooms-he has serenely turned out four symphonies, one opera, a concerto and four piano pieces. Last week in Tokyo he displayed some of the fruits of serenity to warmly applauding Japanese...
...unconstitutionally-refused (TIME, March 28). Denied an outlet for their grievances through normal political channels, 400,000 peasants last week turned out across the length and breadth of France in protest demonstrations. In the Breton town of Quimper, farmers in clogs, smocks and broad-brimmed velvet hats blockaded the railway station for three hours, were hurled back from the city hall only by police baton charges. At Sens, 60 miles south of Paris, another 3,000 peasants fought a pitched battle with steel-helmeted riot cops, shouting, "We will not be serfs of the Fifth Republic...
...Durrell is a short (5 ft. 3½ in.), chunky (145 Ibs.) man with clear blue eyes, thick blond-grey hair and a blunt face. Though his forebears were Irish Protestants, Durrell began his whirling-dervish life in India, where his engineer father helped build the Darjeeling Railway and died when Larry was 17. Recalls Durrell: "We lived the life which Kipling romanticized in Kim. All day long, processions of lamas passed my school whirling prayer wheels...
There are six capital crimes under federal law (murder, rape, bank robbery, kidnaping, treason, espionage) and some 30 under state laws (e.g., aiding a suicide in Arkansas or burning a railway bridge in Georgia), but in practice the death penalty is seldom carried out in the U.S. for offenses other than 1) murder and 2)rape committed by a Negro in the South. Of the 97 men executed in the U.S., in 1958-59 under state laws, 81 were convicted of murder, 15 of rape (14 Negroes, one white, all in Southern states), and one of armed robbery (a Negro...