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Actually, they said, only 1% of the state's 77,227 sq. mi. has gone to pot-and neighboring Iowa has even more of it, thanks to heavier rainfall. The marijuana that grows in Nebraska, mostly along roadsides, creeks, hedgerows and railroad tracks, is virtually worthless as a narcotic. "Smoking it would be about like smoking corn silk," said Lancaster County Extension Agent Emery Nelson...
Feathered Engines. By any measure, Butcher and Seabrook already rank as big-time executives. A director of 26 companies, Butcher controls the largest 'single block of stock in the Pennsylvania Railroad, plus enough shares in the New York Central so that he would still control one of the largest holdings when the two lines merge. As senior partner of Philadelphia's Butcher & Sherrerd, he supervises $500 million in investments for some 400 clients...
...their drive, Butcher and Seabrook operate in relaxed fashion, Butcher from his ground-floor brokerage desk, Seabrook from a pint-size office eight floors above. Butcher still swims daily in his suburban pool, plays tennis regularly. Seabrook, a model-railroad buff, raises horses and collects antique carriages (he has two dozen) at his 4,200 acre farm in Salem, N.J. He and his wife, former United Press Correspondent Liz Toomey (whom he met at Grace Kelly's wedding to Monaco's Prince Rainier), often slip into 18th century costume for champagne-sipping country outings amid the asparagus...
...least 120 aircraft. This might be expected to sap the resistance of the North's air force, which normally has no more than 110 planes at once, but for the fact that the Russians regularly provide replacements. Packed in crates, MIGs from the Soviet Union roll by railroad across China. The North's biggest problem is thus not getting new planes to replace losses but training enough pilots to fly them...
...Railroads also reported lower third-quarter results. The Pennsylvania Railroad showed a sharp drop in earnings, from $27,557,000 last year to $11,135,000. Union Pacific's net income was down from $26,193,000 to $19,595,000, and Norfolk & Western, normally one of the most profitable, had a 23% earnings decline. The N. & W. managed, however, to set another sort of record. Pulled and pushed by eight diesel engines, a supertrain of 450 coal cars moved over 47 miles of N. & W. track to set a freight-train record for U.S. railroads. Any motorist caught...