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...distance free-style events, captain Dick Seaton may be the man to replace Jorgensen. His best time in the longest freshman event to date, the 200, has been 2:02.3. In addition, Seaton has done the 50 in 24 seconds and the 100 in 52.3. "Such versatility is an indication of a real swimmer," coach Bill Brooks said, predicting that Seaton would also be a good...
Dyer, who is fast stropping himself down to a razor's edge, broke the 23-second record for the 50-yard free style set by Charley Hunter in 1937. He sprinted to a 22.8 mark, cutting down one of the longest standing Crimson records...
...Southern Pacific in 1901 for $42 million, spent some $240 million to improve it.-It was Harriman who pioneered automatic block signals, spanned Utah's Great Salt Lake with 16 miles of embankment and twelve miles of trestle. The S.P. is the nation's second-longest railroad (after the Santa Fe); adding wholly owned affiliates and the Cotton Belt, which it controls (88%), it is the longest, with 14,854 miles of road...
Cold as Tombs. The bitterest strike of recent times had lasted 13 weeks, the longest major strike since 1950. Some 50,000 of Westinghouse's 116,000 employees were out, and almost half of the company's 98 plants (e.g., those producing atomic reactors, electronic tubes, air conditioners) sat as cold and motionless as tombs. At most. 4,500 of the strikers had crossed the picket lines and gone back to work...
...bustling Orly Airport last week, a bulletin board flashed departures to every corner of the globe-Casablanca, Mexico City, Prague, London, New York, Stockholm, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo. All planes bore the winged sea-horse insigne of Air France, Europe's biggest and the world's longest airline. Frenchmen could claim with pride that it is also one of the world's most modern. Last week France's international airline was betting some $143 million on a new jet fleet, the biggest outside the U.S. On order were twelve French-built twin-jet Caravelle transports...