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...Actually, I've always called myself an eastern-seaboard international liberal," Clare Boothe Luce declared last week, as she explained why she had threatened to enter the race for the U.S. Senate from New York as the Conservative Party candidate. "My slight diversion about the Senate a few months ago," she went on, "was never very serious. Obviously, I couldn't win, so I never more than considered running...
Galbraith said that Kennedy's "versitile competence combined with courage and energy is surely what the great urban complex of the eastern seaboard requires of its representatives in Washington...
Imaginative Recipe. All this speed is the Japanese National Railways' imaginative recipe for breaking a transportation bottleneck that is squeezing the nation's industrial heart. The scenic green seaboard between Tokyo and Osaka-containing only 16% of Japan's land-holds 43% of its population and half of its 500,000 factories. The lone highway between the two cities is hopelessly jammed. Planes fly often, but fares are high. And the Old Tokaido Line, opened in 1891, is so clogged with a quarter of the nation's passenger and freight traffic that passengers often reserve seats...
...mellowing of attitudes toward mergers, which railroaders hope may eventually save them up to $1 billion a year. In the past two years the Government has approved two major mergers-the Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio linkup, as well as the tie between Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line Railroad. The ICC is considering 20 other proposed mergers, of which six are big. The Justice Department has raised serious objection to only one, the link-up between the nation's two largest railroads, the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. But the railroads are exempt from antitrust laws...
...majority had caught it willy-nilly without the fun of a party. "It comes in waves, two to four years apart," said Chicago's Health Commissioner Samuel Andelman. "When it starts, it's like fire in straw." The fire had spread from New England, down the Eastern seaboard and westward to the Continental Divide. It has not yet hit the West Coast in full force. It will...