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...million a year. Most of the time, it has seemed a losing fight. Last week in Washington the tide unexpectedly turned when a presidential arbitration commission decided that the Order of Railroad Telegraphers was unjustified in demanding the right to veto job cutbacks on the Chicago & North Western Railway...
...last time a Pope ventured onto a train was in 1863, when Pius IX rode a few bumpy miles southeast of Rome to bless a new railway line. But Pope John XXIII, 80, is no stay-at-home. Leaving the seldom used Vatican station at daybreak in the Italian government's presidential railroad car, he made a 400-mile whistle stop journey to Loreto and Assisi to pray for the success of the Second Vatican Council, convening in Rome this week. From the coach's window, he blessed huge crowds along the line and gave signs that...
...Ford, Kodak and Kraft Foods. Strouse became the third chief executive in Thompson's 84-year history in 1960, when he was hurdled over 84 other vice presidents to succeed Stanley Resor, then 81, who had run the agency for 44 years. The self-educated son of a railway clerk, Strouse joined Thompson as a space buyer in San Francisco 33 years ago and, after a World War II stint as a major on MacArthur's staff, rode the Ford account to the top of the agency. In his spare time, Strouse turns out handsomely designed pamphlets...
After a month-long shutdown and three weeks of deadlocked discussions, the Order of Railroad Telegraphers last week ended its strike against the Chicago & North Western Railway. For farmers and factories along the C. & N. W.'s 10,702mile, nine-state route, the settlement came none too soon. Since 1,000 telegraphers walked out to protest the elimination of small stations-and the obsolescent jobs in them-by the fourth longest U.S. railroad, the Midwest has lost millions in unshipped crops and unfilled orders...
...tyranny of the Kuomintang regime, is on the verge of starvation. Its members flee to the Northern Shensi Border Region where they are rescued by the Communist Party and find a way out of their bitter plight." The opera is produced by the Modern Opera Group of the China Railway Workers' Cultural Troupe...