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...world's longest gas pipeline is going to be built across Canada. This was announced last week by Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe after a four-day conference in Ottawa with officials of two pipeline companies. Canadian-owned Western Pipe Lines Ltd., which had sought permission to transport Alberta's natural gas to Winnipeg and Minneapolis, and U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., which wanted to build an all Canadian line, had agreed to merge. The new combine will build a 2,240-mile pipeline from Princess, Alta. to Toronto and Montreal. The pipeline will...
Grindelwald is a storybook village in Switzerland, nestling on the side of towering, 12,000-ft. mountains. It. is Grindelwald's proud boast that it has one of the longest ski lifts in the world; people come from all over the world to enjoy it. Last week a six-woman Russian ski team arrived at Grindelwald for a warmup international meet before next month's world ski championships. They took one astonished look at the capitalistic contrivance and labeled Grindelwald's proud ski lift nothing but "mechanized amusement...
With the usual pompous introduction praising the great, new medium CinemaScope, Twentieth Century-Fox plunges Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. It seems like the longest dive in motion picture history, and when everyone including the fish come up for air several hours later, there is little doubt that the CinemaScope millennium has not quite arrived...
There is a very funny picture playing at the Brattle Theatre this week. The longest of reading period assignments and most foul exam schedule imaginable should not keep any true lover of the constant guffaw away from His Gal Friday...
...actually enlarged their subjects' dimensions (Betty Miller's Robert Browning, David Magarshack's Chekhov, Antony Alpers' Katherine Mansfield). In one book that was not properly a biography, two well-known men told a great deal about themselves and about each other in one of the longest correspondences of the century. The Holmes-Laski Letters were part mutual-admiration society, part intellectual fencing match between an old-fashioned liberal and an agile-minded, often devious leftist...