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...yellowish, brassbound trunk not only moved-it talked. From its depths came kicks, wriggles, and a sepulchral voice pleading "Aiutatemi! Salvatemi!" (Help me! Save me!). Porter Mario Colelli, who was loading freight into the rear baggage compartment of United Arab Airlines flight 784 to Cairo, recalls, "It was good Italian, real Italian Italian. Suddenly, I thought, 'My God, this is an Italian, and these Arabs are kidnaping him-some political fellow or something. Who knows what they'll do to him down there in Cairo...
...industry is eagerly putting them to the test. An electronic computer runs crewless auxiliary locomotives on long Louisville & Nashville freight trains. The New York Stock Exchange is installing a computer system that can answer brokers' questions, keep track of floor transactions at each trading post, and feed quotations to the ticker at the rate of 16 million shares a day. More than 100 companies control their inventories with computers, which record every sale and tell managers when and how much to reorder. Borrowing an idea from the airlines, Long Island's Maxson Electronics Co. plans by next July...
...foreigners had been allowed on the 2,300-mile stretch from Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, which runs straight through what is presumed to be Russia's new belt of atomic plants and missile sites. Presumably, by taking careful note of such clues as power lines, spur tracks and freight-car types, a trained military observer could get an excellent idea of precisely what kinds of installations were where. And presumably the four Western attachés did precisely that-and more...
...breath. Sailing up the St. Lawrence from Prince Edward Island, where she began her eight-day visit, the royal yacht Britannia docked at Wolfe's Cove, and for a full hour security police combed the area before the Queen and Prince Philip stepped ashore. In a bleakly unceremonial freight shed, she inspected the honor guard, listened to a welcoming speech by Premier Jean Lesage, then climbed into a bulletproof Cadillac for the drive to the Quebec Parliament Building-and a reception as chill as the north wind moaning down from the Arctic...
...single man stands like a birdwatcher, and scuffles the pepper and salt snow from a discarded, gray Westinghouse Electric cable drum. He cannot discover America by counting the chains of condemned freight-trains from thirty states . . . Across the river, ledges of suburban factories tan in the sulphur-yellow sun of the unforgivable landscape...