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...Pipe Line Corp.. headed by Pipeline Builder Ray Fish, who plans to run a line 1,466 miles from the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico to Bellingham. Wash. Fish has had plenty of experience. His Fish Engineering Corp. built two of the world's longest pipelines: the Transcontinental, from Texas to New York, and the Texas Illinois, serving the Chicago area. He plans to finance the new $160 million line with common and preferred stocks and by selling bonds to insurance companies...
...confidence (306 to 293) but not by the crucial 314 votes. The line-up against him included: 96 Communists, 104 of the 105 Socialists, 33 of the 76 Radical Socialists and 44 of the 75 Gaullists. Laniel had lasted just 14 days short of a full year, the second-longest-lived postwar government...
...Longest: Henri Queuille (391 days...
...both crews have not yet missed a day of practice. Paced by the freshmen for two miles and then by the junior varsity for the second two, the Crimson varsity eight, stroked by Larry Brewnell, finished strong in its three preface tests over the four mile course. The longest time, rowed against a slight headwind and through changing tide, was 22.19. Two of the trials were downstream, and the third upstream...
...past nine years, Mrs. Royale's daily ride has become something of a legend, and local citizens are willing to bet that it is the longest daily school-bus ride anywhere in the nation. Each morning Mrs. Royale heads first for nearby Tiger. There she picks up 15 pupils and sets out for Oracle for 15 more. She drives over mountain roads and flat, paved highways, stops at junctions along the way for the boys and girls who are waiting. By the time she gets them to Florence (where the nearest high school is located), she has covered...