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Autos were up 10%, department stores 21%, office equipment 39%, and paper 17%. On the down side were air lines, off 18%, farm machinery 15%, and railway equipment...
...voyage, the 250-passenger 30-car craft was about two-thirds filled as it whooshed over 3-ft. waves to Boulogne at 60 m.p.h. The trip was a mite noisy and bumpy, and passengers were further inconvenienced by the fact that the new service does not yet have direct railway links to either London or Paris. The British Railways Board, which operates the crossings, hopes to eliminate most of the kinks in the next few months. Despite an adult fare of $8.40, compared with $6.24 for a regular ferryboat, most of last week's travelers seemed more than satisfied...
Persistent Deadlock. The striking members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers left their jobs June 21, demanding an 18% pay increase spread over two years. Backed by a federal conciliation board, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority offered a 12% raise, to an average $3.48 (Canadian) an hour. At the first negotiations since the walk-out began, the union cut its demand to 15%, but the deadlock persisted. Ottawa fears that a big settlement could set off inflationary wage increases, as happened after the seaway workers won a two-year, 30% pay boost...
...from bamboo poles to rifles, thousands of workers and students have clashed in bloody battles throughout Kwangtung province and the neighboring Kwangsi region. In the countryside, some peasants have torn up roads leading to their villages to keep out marauding bands of fighters. Repeatedly, during the past month, the railway from Nanning, Kwangsi's capital, to the North Vietnamese border, has been...
...French railway station a woman bids goodbye to a friend. Then she boards the train-and sneaks out on the other side of the platform. A classic Hitchcock opening for a film that is missing only one vital ingredient: Alfred Hitchcock. In the maestro's place, however, is his greatest disciple, Director Francois Truffaut, who considers Hitchcock "an artist of anxiety" to be placed alongside Kafka...