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...foreign delegation after another as they arrived to attend the summit spectacular that marked the windup of the European Security Conference (TIME cover, Aug. 4). Fortunately for Kekkonen, most delegations showed up on time-and by air. But not all. In mid-afternoon Kekkonen raced into town to the railway station to shake hands with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who had chosen to make the 18-hour trip from Moscow by train. Then Kekkonen sped back to the airport (normally a 30-minute trip, but the President made it in 13) to continue the marathon ceremony...
...past 18 months, federal planners have been wrestling with the problem of how to make the bankrupt Northeastern rail system once more efficient and profitable. In February, the U.S. Railway Association-a Government cure seeker created by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act-issued its preliminary plan for a Government-backed corporation that would consolidate about 15,000 miles of the old Penn Central and half a dozen other bankrupt lines. That plan was much criticized by politicians; New York Governor Hugh Carey called it "utterly unacceptable...
...current plans for further nationalization of industries and by warning labor to eliminate crippling strikes. In a belated effort to nudge India's notoriously slothful bureaucracy, the government has been cracking down on civil service inefficiency. Minister of State Mohammed Shafi Qureshi paid a surprise visit to the railway headquarters just after the working day began. Finding that 150 employees were not yet at their desks, he locked out the stragglers for the rest...
Last week, after months of rumors that negotiations were under way, the Montoneros released Jorge Born, 41, at a railway station near the capital. Juan, 40, had been quietly released several months ago, apparently because his abductors feared for his health, but the news had been withheld so as not to endanger Jorge. Reported size of the Borns' ransom, perhaps the largest ever paid: $60 million...
Hair Styles. Hinting at another long-desired goal, reunification with the North, the P.R.G. turned Saigon's clocks back one hour to conform with Hanoi time, and sections of the ancient French-built Hanoi-Saigon railway, unused during the war, were reopened. There were also signs that "liberation" of the South might have some impact on the North, especially if residents of one region were allowed to travel freely in the other. Bureaucrats in Hanoi have been studying sketches of different clothing and hair styles, apparently to enliven the drab appearance of the North...