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...including the spacious, well-equipped Kamina strip in Katanga. Hammarskjold fired off a stiff note to Brussels, virtually accusing the Belgians of lying in assuring him that all their soldiers had left when, in fact, he charged, 600 remained. Belgium called this figure "exaggerated," replied tartly that insufficient U.N. transport planes had been provided...
Permission was refused. For as Laborite Charles Morris, chairman of Manchester's Transport Committee, testily explained, "If turbans are permitted, there is nothing to prevent a whole string of religious beliefs turning up to work with all sorts of badges and devices.'' With a true bureaucratic horror of the unusual and un expected, he said, "What do we do if an orthodox Jew comes along? They don't work on Saturdays." He offered Singh Sagar. a graduate in languages and literature from an Indian university, other work in the bus terminal where he could wear...
...Guardian: an editorial suggested that, with or without caps, no one looked tackier than the average Manchester bus conductor. Asked an indignant letter writer: "If a man is clean, polite and has a sense of duty, what difference does a hat make? Unless, of course, he is on the Transport Committee and requires a hole in it to talk through...
Last week, even more dismayed by public outcry than by private eccentricity, harried Bureaucrat Morris hurriedly put the case of Singh Sagar back on the agenda for next month's Transport Committee meeting. "Perhaps," said stubborn, turbaned Singh Sagar. "I will be the first Sikh to ring a Manchester Corporation bus bell...
Lockheed is losing $24.5 million on its turboprop Electras, half of it spent on correcting the structural flaws that caused two crashes. Because of defense-spending cutbacks, there have been few orders for Lockheed's small JetStar transport, a $31 million project. Other programs in the works, and the need to cover expenses on some contracts which the Government may disallow, added another $12 million to Lockheed's losses...