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...Canadian National's reckoning, on a downtown-to-downtown basis the turbotrains should approach the time-including traveling to and from airports-that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved...
...Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...
Candy & Drugs. Guinness can be grateful for the fact that the Irish have indeed been doing their duty. Making his annual report this week, Arthur Francis Benjamin Guinness, Viscount Elveden, 28, the sixth Guinness to run the company, was able to announce a $15.5 million profit, nearly double Guinness' earnings ten years ago. Other nations, in addition, are picking up the Irish sense of obligation. Guinness and the company's newer Harp Lager are now marketed the world over; more than $20 million worth is exported annually. Between exports and Guinness brewed in three overseas plants...
...Gate plant is still the company's principal operation, has grown into a 63-acre sprawl that is one of the world's largest breweries. The chairman's job and brewing secrets have since passed regularly from father to son except in one case. Viscount Elveden's father was killed in World War II, and today's incumbent took over at 24 from an aging grandfather. Although Guinness became a public company in 1886, it is still family-controlled. Along with Eton-and Cambridge-educated Elveden, eight other Guinnesses sit on the board. Like...
...with requests for more support. Asian delegates asked the U.S. Government to underwrite the proposed Asian development bank. Among the 2,000 moneymen from 103 nations who crowded into the Sheraton Park Hotel, such bankers as the U.S.'s David Rockefeller and Robert Roosa, Britain's Viscount Harcourt and Italy's Ettore Lolli swapped shop talk and negotiated private deals...