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While the vote for approval of the new constitution was clearly passed (it needed a two-thirds margin) the balloting on the name of the new group was considerably Affairs was accepted by a scant 20 vote margin out of more than 1600 cast...
...impulse to cohesiveness-against a common threat from outside, against a tradition of centuries-is the subject of this week's cover story. Though 375 journalists (most of them from religious periodicals) were on hand to cover the proceedings in New Delhi, the event got scant attention in even the best of U.S. news papers...
Demand proved too great even for the Government's hoard. In the past few weeks, a new buying spree cut the Treasury's silver holdings, over and above the amount legally required for currency backing, by nearly one-third to a scant 22 million ounces...
...only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were willing to listen to any rumor that came along...
...Unwelcome Suitor. The Central's lap, however, proved to have scant attraction for the other heiresses. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad stockholders flatly rejected Central overtures in favor of merger talks with the more profitable Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The Central was also rebuffed when it tried to elbow into the projected merger of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad. And since the Pennsylvania owns 32.6% of the Norfolk & Western's voting stock, Perlman began to fear that the girl he had rejected might join the N. & W.-Nickel Plate combine, leaving...