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Screamed London's evening paper headlines": FARES SHOCK! Sprouts & Privacy. Last week fare shocks and Tiddlydike nostalgia reached a record peak. Dr. Richard Beeching, the blunt, brusque businessman hired-for $67,000 a year, highest salary ever paid a British civil servant-to shunt the nationalized railways out of the red, announced a nationwide 10% fare boost...
...billion in the past year, interest rates are easy, and the reserves of banks have swollen since savings rates were raised from 3% to 4% this year. But capital spending for the year is expected to rise only to $37.2 billion, which is just a shade above the 1957 peak...
Climbing snowy slopes and fighting 90 k. wind gusts, two members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club last summer became the third party ever to reach the east peak of Mount Logan, during an expedition described last night by Boyd N. Everett...
...horse and buggy could move through Los Angeles at a rate of 11 m.p.h.; in 1962 during the rush hours, the average car makes the same trip at 5 m.p.h. The touted freeways designed to aid entrance to and exit from the city are already outgrown, will reach their peak in 1968-eleven years before the entire 1049-mile system will be completed. Most cities have seen their commuter lines dwindle, and lean heavily on inadequate transit systems. Says Boston's Mayor Collins: "If we were to adapt an urban civilization to everybody who's lazy enough...
Grade-B Thriller. The campaign reached a peak with the arrival in Algiers last month of six men from Italy's state-owned radio-TV network, RAI. Scarcely had the newcomers registered at the flea-bitten Hotel Aletti when S.A.O. gunmen invaded the hotel and, under the studiously indifferent gaze of hotel employees, not only made off with $8,000 worth of RAI equipment but kidnaped an Italian newsman as well. Fifteen minutes too late, the armed French riot police showed...