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President Johnson announced the formation of the Emergency Board in late April: following the provision of the Railway Labor Act, the three man board spent a month studying the issues before making recommendations. Then followed a 30-day waiting period, also specified by the law, during which futile attempts were made at a compromise. When that period expired Friday, the union struck...
...radically new in form. The well-made play with a beginning, a middle and an end is a thing of the past. It presupposes the leisure time of a leisure class, the idea of steady evolutionary progress and the information speed, as Marshall McLuhan has pointed out, of a railway system. Great Expectations epitomizes a 19th century mood, just as No exit reflects a 20th century mood. The well-made play assumes that everything is a problem capable of solution, as in a detective story...
...crash road-building program, Feisal plans 6,000 miles of new roads by 1970. He is also rebuilding the Hejaz Railway-in ruins ever since Lawrence of Arabia blew it apart during World War I-from Medina through Jordan to Syria. In Jeddah, he is putting up a $14 million water-desalting plant that will daily convert Red Sea water into 5,000,000 gallons of potable water and produce 45,000 kw. of power...
...Death of Truth." After another sermon in the harbor city of Gdansk, shouting students marched on the main railway station, tore down an antichurch billboard and used it as kindling for a bonfire. Angrily the government fired off a note to the cardinal, ordering him to tone down the millennium and reminding him that a replica of Czestochowa's renowned "Black Madonna" painting-centerpiece for most of the celebrations-could only be transported around Poland in "a closed car." The warning went unheeded. Last week a group of students in Lublin grabbed the portrait after a cathedral ceremony...
...further leverage on Wilson, Kaunda decided to withhold all hardcurrency payments to Rhodesia, due as its share of the jointly owned and operated railway that is Zambia's lifeline for copper exports and coal and consumer-goods imports. By jeopardizing his own economy, Kaunda hopes to put Wilson over a barrel and force him into more decisive action. To calm Kaunda down, last week Wilson sent Judith Hart, the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, to Lusaka. When she arrived, only two minor protocol officers were waiting to meet her, and toward week...