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...mighty industry has come upon sick and precarious times. Our railroads are in a very serious condition." Thus last week did Florida's Senator George Smathers, chairman of the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee, sound the keynote for a five-day public hearing in Washington. To the marble-pillared Senate caucus room he summoned a parade of more than two dozen railroad executives to describe what ails the railroads and suggest how to cure...
Last week, convinced that the time had come "to meet the people and answer my critics," Sir Roy set off on a five-day tour of "enemy territory"-the bush country of Nyasaland, whose 2,500,000 Africans (there are few whites there) are vociferously anxious to get out of the federation. At one of his early stops in southern Nyasaland, scene of bloody African riots in the days immediately preceding federation, Sir Roy wowed his audience by declaring "I am an African like yourselves. I was born here in Africa." Said one of his audience: "We like Welensky because...
...drive for a Latin American common market, spurred by the recent Buenos Aires economic conference (TIME, Sept. 16), last week got its first results. In Santiago, Brazilian Foreign Minister José Carlos de Macedo Scares capped a cordial, busy five-day visit by approving a joint Brazil-Chile commission to establish South America's first common market between the two countries. A practical basis for the reciprocal market already exists: Brazil buys Chile's nitrates and Chile needs Brazil's coffee and cocoa. The committee starts work in 60 days on a draft treaty. Said Chile...
More than 1,300 alumni and their dependents had registered for the five-day celebration by 10:00 last night in the Union...
CELEBRATING its 100th anniversary in Washington this week, the American Institute of Architects got down to a five-day series of speeches, panels and discussion groups on the past and future of U.S. architecture. Looking back over the past 100 years, a photographic exhibit of some 200 black-and-white photographs singled out 65 high points of U.S. building, from Richard Upjohn's 1853 Victorian Wyman Villa to Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel Crown Hall, built last year at the Illinois Institute of Technology (TIME, July 2). Looking to the future, the A.I.A. also presented...