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Maurenbrecher v. Manry...
...City v. Country. Peking recently reaffirmed this view in perhaps its most bellicose language yet. In a major policy statement printed by every major newspaper on the mainland, beetle-browed Defense Minister Lin Piao-one of the top seven men in Red China's hierarchy-called for worldwide subversion to destroy the U.S. and its allies. Recalling Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla strategy of enlisting the rural peasantry against city-based governments, Lin declared: "If North America and Western Europe can be called the cities of the world, then Asia, Africa and Latin America are the rural areas...
...Beauty v. Need. The atmosphere of conflict, both inside and outside the ranks, is as natural to conservation as the scent of balsam. For opposed to every conservationist cause there is always the need of those from whom the land is being saved. Steel manufacturers, for example, have discovered that the most efficient sites for their plants are near water transportation. One such location is the Indiana Dunes, a strip of glacier-formed beach, sand dunes and marshland running along Indiana's Lake Michigan coast from Gary to Michigan City. For 50 years conservationists have seethed as the dunes...
Died. The Atlanta Times, 14-month-old daily launched by Georgia's ex-U.S. Congressman James C. Davis to boost segregation and fight what he called "radicalism"; of poor circulation (less than 75,000 v. an expected 125,000), debilitating losses ($3,000,000), and conspicuous lack of advertising support from Atlanta's big department stores, which despite threatening phone calls from Times fans, remained loyal to the city's well-established newspapers, the jointly owned Constitution and Journal, both of which have helped make Atlanta the most integrated city of the South...
...miles of track; it would boast annual revenues of $1.822 billion a year. The new road would be a shade larger than the pending New York Central-Pennsylvania combine (23,271 track miles, $1.806 billion-a-year revenues) but would have slightly less in total assets ($5.9 billion v. the Pennsy Central's $6 billion...