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...envelopes piled up. so did the furor over the Kennedy-backed deal. Richard Nixon denounced the trade-which, he warned, could be completed only "at the cost of increasing the power of the tyrant." Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams introduced a bill that would make the proposed swap a federal offense, punishable by $5,000 fine, three years in prison. Wrote an indignant reader of the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "I have been sick to my stomach with shame...
Fidel Castro's offer to swap rebel prisoners for heavy-duty tractors has raised a strange debate, in which every speaker seems to vie for irrelevancy...
...lines would serve 15 states, create the second longest U.S. railroad, with 21,325 miles of track, and save an estimated $40 million in joint operating economies. But a group of Milwaukee Road directors led by Executive Committee Chairman J. Patrick Lannan oppose the terms of the proposed stock swap as too little for Milwaukee Road stockholders. They would get one new share for each owned, while C. & N.W. holders would get 1¼ to 1½ shares for each owned. The five dissident directors have been buying up Milwaukee Road stock, now have 250,000 shares...
Recalling the so-called land swap meeting between the University and the City earlier this month, Mrs. Wise introduced the amendment to retain the area in A-2. She asked that the land remain under present going until negotiations might allow the city to take over the University-owned eastern half of the Hill, now a playground for neighborhood children...
Disapproving of the proposed land swap between the University and the city, Vellucci also came out against the inner belt route "in its entirety...