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...window to pick bouquets of bluebells and primroses. But over the years, despite the railway's much admired charm, modern highways with their rumbling trucks and beetling cars drained away its traffic. In 1955, struggling to cut the losses of Britain's nationalized railways, the Transport Ministry marked the "Bluebell and Primrose" for extinction...
...woods in full cry against unfeeling bureaucrats. The sentimentalists discovered a clause in Parliament's original authorizing law requiring the Bluebell line to operate not fewer than four trains a day, and it took another three years, with the line losing $160,000 a year, for the Transport Ministry to find a way around the law and stop service. Workmen were already ripping up the tracks when Britain's antique-railroad buffs founded the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and asked to buy the surviving 4½ miles of trackage. To discourage them, the ministry named a stiff price...
...reserves from $50 million to $196 million, largely by the simple device of refusing to pay his U.S. bills. The Soviets are keeping Cuba supplied with oil at prices running $14 million a year less than the price of the Venezuelan crude it replaces, though the high cost of transport must in the end be paid by Cuba. Economic sanctions, so long as Castro's popularity lasts with his people, may even increase their fervor for a time...
...would be extended to the Congo. His recommendation: the U.N. force should be drawn primarily from "sister African nations." But to provide the "element of universality essential to any U.N. operation," he suggested that neutrals and other nations not involved in the cold war should take part. For transport and food he was prepared to call on any and all of the U.N.'s 83 members, and the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge gave all-out support...
...beleaguered Congo, the first silver-bodied, red-tailed Hercules plane whined off the runway of the U.S. Air Station at Chateauroux in southern France. At Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina and at Dover Base in Delaware, ponderous Globemasters lumbered into the air. By last week 132 U.S. transport planes were flying across half the world in the vast United Nations airlift to and from the Congo...