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...first accident on the Winter Olympic Games bobsled run yesterday injured two Americans and brought demands that the course be rebuilt. The driver and No. 2 man on the U.S. four man sled were bruised when their sled rocketed off the third turn...
...have children of their own, and in summer live in houses on the 56-acre family country place at Westhampton, L.I. Until 1938, the Westhampton place was known as "To Windward." After the hurricane of that year, the place was re-christened "Still to Windward." The main house was rebuilt in ampler proportions, two houses for the sons, a house for Judge Medina's mother, a remodeled library, a boathouse and numerous outbuildings. It is a family playground, now less elaborately maintained than it was, for in 1947 Harold Medina gave up a law practice...
...months in office, Magsaysay has brought about great changes in the Philippines. First he rebuilt the army, until then a demoralized, politics-racked conglomeration that couldn't fight its way out of a bamboo hut with a howitzer. Then he went after the Huks, who were so strong at the time that they were thinking seriously of seizing Manila itself. Last week, with his newly respectable and respected 40,000-man army, and some 10,000 reinforcements from the R.O.T.C. and reserves, he underwrote an election which, for all the bloodshed, gave free voice to the popular will...
Texas City's industries are keeping pace. The giant Monsanto Chemical plant, a blackened ruin after the 1947 disaster, has been rebuilt (total cost: $50 million). Other industries have spent $28,500,000 on new buildings, plan to put up another $44 million worth...
...million for new and renovated equipment, more unitwise than any other railroad in the U.S. Of this, 22% is going toward improving passenger service, which accounts for only 15% of the Pennsy's revenues. The Pennsy has already bought 386 new coaches and 211 new sleepers, completely rebuilt 203 of its 1,849 old coaches. It has spent $274 million on a huge dieselization program, now 92% complete, and is laying down 300 miles of new heavy track at a cost of $15 million. Says Franklin: "We don't brag about our roadbed; it needs work done...