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...Ford and Chrysler cars swept south from St. Louis last week on the rails of the St. Louis-San Francisco railroad. The shiny cargo represented the largest weekly auto shipments the Frisco had ever carried. It also signaled a comeback of U.S. railroads in the competition for automobile freight transport, which a few years ago seemed won by the trucking industry...
...conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes-and the only question left undecided was the size of Hugh Gaitskell's defeat. Burly Frank Cousins, leftist boss of the giant Transport and General Workers Union, was driving for a million-vote majority for a neutralist policy. Gaitskell, backed by the party's 254 M.P.s was fighting not only for his defense policy but his party leadership...
...Scarborough Conference rejected that policy in explicit terms, overruling it by a vote of 3,339,000 to 3,042,000. When it passed the motion of the Transport Workers, a left-wing union led by the voluble Frank Cousin's, Labour in fact committed itself to the rejection of "any defense policy based on the threat or use of strategic or tactical nuclear weapons...
...CUTS were announced for Pennsylvania Railroad executives and nonunion employees. Cuts range from 5% to 30%, are for an indefinite period. Pennsy has been running in the red since resuming operations on Sept. 13 after twelve-day strike led by Mike Quill's Transport Workers Union...
...series of basketball and volleyball games between teams from the 517th Artillery and the Yankee-baiting University of Panama. The Army sent buses to transport the teams and fans from Panama, then entertained them at after-game parties...