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...same can be expected for the daily, which has lost a lot of its old thunder, although circulation has increased 10% in the five months since it began putting news instead of agony ads on Page One. Hamilton plans to "crossbreed" his daily and Sunday staffs into a seven-day operation. The Times, he says, "needs a vast amount of money so we can increase coverage. It needs more pages and more correspondents, and that is what it will...
...therefore with great relief that Canadians last week saw trains moving again after a seven-day strike. Trickling back to work were 119,000 members of 16 unions that had idled the big Canadian Pacific and Canadian National rail roads, as well as five smaller lines. Back also went employees of telegraph systems and essential ferry lines, which are under the striking unions' jurisdiction...
...took twice as long to produce a vaccine of comparable safety for the ordinary "red" or "seven-day" measles (rubeola) after the virus was cultivated...
...better listen to this boat drill," Captain Otto Thoresen cautioned passengers. "Next time it might be the real thing." As the 30-minute no-nonsense safety demonstration proceeded, the Viking Princess steamed out of Miami on a seven-day pleasure cruise. Last week, in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti, the cruise was nearing its end when the real thing did happen. The Princess was ablaze...
...Nhon harbor, a communications facility and a 60-bed hospital for the 1st Air Cavalry at An Khe, a 250,000-sq.-yd. ammunition dump at Long Binh, and fortifications and housing at Cu Chi for newly arrived troops of the 25th Division. In one recent seven-day period, the men of the 18th worked 161,923 man-hours, hauling 362,762 tons of fill, pouring 1,394 cu. yds. of concrete, finishing 504 lin. ft. of runway, erecting 474,460 sq. ft. of open and covered storage, crushing 4,806 tons of rock and building...