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Visiting Americans, particularly those from New York City, are made to feel instantly at home in Paris. Just like members of the family, they are snarled at by French cab drivers, roared at by French traffic cops, sneered at by hotel clerks, ignored by public servants, cursed by motorists and contemned by streetwalkers and beggars. With cocked brow and curling lip, the casual metropolitan Frenchman seems to regard most alien bewilderment as stupidity, any request as unreasonable, and all tips too small. For the visitor, the chief comfort to be derived from this situation is that Frenchmen seem to treat...
...world's biggest privately owned railroad moved a hard-driving engineer into the front cab last week. Norris Roy ("Buck") Crump, 50, a veteran railroader who began his career as a 16-year-old track laborer, was elected president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., the $2 billion transportation empire, largely owned by U.S. and British investors, that is Canada's richest corporation...
...much of the management. He directed the railway's dieselization program, cut costs and built up the profit margin ($27 million in 1954) despite a drop in revenues. Buck Crump has traveled nearly every mile of C.P.R.'s far-flung system, often in the engineer's cab, has a first-hand knowledge of his company's multiple enterprises and is known by sight by nearly every one of his 87,000 employees...
...ecclesiastical striptease that comes repulsively close to what might be called priestitution. A young American (Steve Forrest), on his way to study for holy orders, stops over in Paris to take in the sights. Pretty soon he takes one of them (Anne Baxter) for a ride in a cab; from there the picture goes to heaven in a hack...
POLITICAL DUST-UP over CAB attempts to knock two small Alaskan airlines out of their profitable Stateside routes (TIME, Jan. 3) has raised such a furor that CAB has now decided to let them alone. It will recommend that both Pacific Northern Airlines and Alaska Airlines continue to operate into Seattle and Portland along with the big lines, Pan American and Northwest...