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SUDAN. Some shoebill storks imported from the Sudan make like clowns, but the main attention-getter here is a fragile Madonna and Child painted on the mud walls of a church around the 8th century and discovered last year by U.N. archaeologists scurrying to preserve antiquities from the Aswan Dam backwaters...
Moscow's outburst was clearly aimed at Egypt's President Nasser, who has received massive U.S. aid as well as some $271 million in Soviet loans and grants for the Aswan Dam. "The policy of nonalignment," grumped Kommunist, "presupposed only nonparticipation in military blocs and alliances, and by no means an identical attitude to the friends and champions of peace, on the one hand, and to the enemies and aggressors on the other...
...Mellon's handsome colt has the look of a classic horse: at 16.1 hands and 1,100 lbs., he is one of the biggest three-year-olds in the U.S. And he has breeding to match: his sire, Cohoes, won stakes at two, three and four, and his dam, Tap Day, was a daughter of Calumet Farm's great Bull Lea. But in the Kentucky Derby, Quadrangle finished fifth behind Northern Dancer; in the Preakness, the best he could do was fourth. Still, Burch decided to gamble, and the deciding factor might well have been Quadrangle...
...three other manufacturers with quite a bill. To Philadelphia Electric and two other complaining utilities, it awarded damages of $9.6 million; then Judge Joseph S. Lord III trebled the award to $28.9 million, as the Clayton Act requires. Most important, the jury found that the utilities were entitled to dam ages for having been overcharged as far back as 1946, even though the original electrical-conspiracy cases covered only the 1956-60 period. The ruling stemmed from a clause in the law that suspends the statute of limitations (four years in antitrust cases) if plaintiffs can prove both that price...
...this very reason, he added, the skill of the intellectual are more needed in America than elsewhere. "The curronts of our time are impossible to dam up," he said, "but they can be guided by people trained in the exacting skills which the job demands. Any intellectual who is willing to apply his training will have little difficulty in finding exciting employment...