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...French laced with local slang, e.g., "Avion!" for "Hurry up!", "Japan" for anything shoddy. The symbol of the Coast's progress is the French-financed Felix Houphouet-Boigny Bridge that stretches across the Ebrié Lagoon and supports a four-lane highway and a two-track railway...
...government-owned buses that were marked with Sinhalese letters. In response, Sinhalese mobs erupted in the streets of Colombo, obliterating all Tamil lettering on store fronts and signboards. Premier Bandaranaike abjectly reversed himself again and came out once more for Sinhalese as the national language. Disorders swept the country; railway tracks were torn up, telephone and telegraph wires cut. Cities and towns became the scene of communal war. In Colombo 10,000 terrified Tamils were herded into protective camps. In the Tamil country, beleaguered Sinhalese were similarly gathered together and protected by the police and army...
Forty years ago a young Arab officer rode triumphantly up the old Hejaz railway beside Prince Feisal and Lawrence of Arabia toward the ancient desert capital of Amman. Last week, still pursuing his old dream of an Arab nation filling the Fertile Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, General Nuri asSaid, 70, returned to Amman to put into being a new union, the Arab Federation, joining the kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan...
Last week, in Canada, the firemen gave way too. After a bitter, two-year struggle -regarded as a test case for all North American railroads -the giant. 17,000-mile Canadian Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched...
Born. To Marlon Brando, 34, cinemactor, and India-born Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 23, who denies strong evidence that she was little Joanie O'Callaghan when her father, an Irish employee of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, enrolled her in school in Darjeeling: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Christian...