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...eased cautiously down a 3% grade for nine miles under smoking brakes. Against the chance that the brakes might fail, special sidetracks were built to switch any runaways to an upgrade. Once off the hill and on a tamer grade, the 91-mile railroad winds through a palm-tufted savannah, a rocky badlands where flash floods can fill dusty ravines with ten feet of water in a few minutes, and finally a sandy semidesert to the Caroni river...
...least 22 new orchestras have sprung up since last season. Among them: the Beaumont (Texas) Symphony (75 players), Savannah (Ga.) Symphony (68), Wartburg Community Symphony of Waverly, Iowa (65), La Porte (Ind.) Symphony (50), Ozarks-Clarksville Little Symphony of Clarksville...
...Register of the Treasury, Savannah Banker Louis B. Toomer, 60, a Negro. Said Toomer, who will direct the work of 3,000 employees auditing the public debt and checking off paid-up securities: "This shows what the G.O.P. thinks of the Negroes, compared with what the Democrats thought...
...Drink & Be Merry. In Savannah, when Mrs. Annie L. Horski sued the local Coca-Cola bottling company for $20,000 after allegedly finding a cockroach in one of its bottles, Defense Counsel Alex Lawrence told the jury that the insect could cause her no harm, to prove his point took a cockroach from his pocket, ate half of it, won his case...
...budget testimony released last week, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean disclosed that the Savannah River, S.C. plant for large-scale production of H-bomb materials had begun partial operations. Already making atomic weapons so fast that it is running out of storage space, the A.E.C. plans to up production of both weapons and fissionable materials more than 25% in fiscal...