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...Dacca along a five-mile route pointedly lined with armed troops and cops. He ordered the arrest of more than 600 Reds and assorted troublemakers, clamped on press censorship, prohibited meetings of more than five persons and sent troops swarming through the local capital to take over the secretariat, railway depot, radio station, powerhouse and telegraph and phone offices. For the first time in months East Pakistan quieted down and from Huq's HQ not a sound was heard, only the pacing of the troops outside his house where he was sequestered in house arrest...
...moments as fiery and explosive as a bomb rack loaded with napalm. Put together from two Satevepost articles (by James Michener and Commander Harry Burns), the film takes a documentary look at a carrier-based jet squadron engaged in daily and seemingly profitless strafings of a North Korean railway junction. But when it struggles with its own pet moral problem ("No man is an island," etc.), the pace rapidly falls off from jet propulsion to a soporific amble...
...York Central proposition was just the kind Murchison likes. He and Richardson did not have to put up a cent of their own money, but borrowed the entire $20 million needed to buy 800,000 shares of Central stock from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which until February was controlled by Young. They got more than half the money from Young's own Alleghany Corp. and his business associate, Allan Kirby. With it, they got an option to sell 50% of the stock back to Alleghany at the $25 price they paid (current market value: about...
PROXY FIGHTS this spring are going the rebels' way. On the heels of an insurgent victory in the New Haven battle, Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman unseated (307,859 votes to 219,373) the management of the 1,397-mile Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, whose main line runs from Minneapolis to Peoria, 111. Heineman, who built his campaign around the lavish expense accounts (up to $100,000 in one year) of Board Chairman Lucian C. Sprague, plans to trim expenses, raise dividends...
Jailed by the British in 1932 along with many other Congress leaders, Narayan conceived the idea of forming a Socialist group as a galvanizer within the Congress Party. After his release, he founded a union of railway workers with some 1,000,000 members, and also headed the postal workers...