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...again on another big deal. It won Federal Power Commission approval to spend $35 million on converting 1,168 miles (from Baytown, Texas to Moundsville, W. Va.) of the Little Big Inch line to petroleum products, including construction of a $13 million, 230-mile additional 14-in. spur from Seymour, Ind. to Chicago. To continue its present gas deliveries to the East, Texas Eastern will spend another $61 million on loops and compressors primarily along 453 miles of its 30-in. line from Beaumont, Texas to Uniontown...
...Important Front. The President's remarks were anything but spur-of-the-moment observations. To begin with, he had been surprised that both Congress and the press had taken the unilateral British decision to resume nonstrategic trade with Peking (TIME. June 10) with such equanimity. Since he is personally more or less in sympathy with the British position that the European front is the really important one in the cold war, he deemed it reasonable that trade restrictions on Red China-growing out of the Korean war-need no longer be tougher than restrictions on Russia. Said one White...
...there is precisely where the hope lies. Originality, for some, has become an urgent compulsion, not merely a contemporary fad. Perhaps the efforts of these few will spur the rest to think, to act, to be themselves. Perhaps somewhere in this vacant land, the value of character and personality will again be forced to the front, to battle with the hollow-eyed crowd of Others. And the battle will be good...
...divorce her, was dead set on leaving India and realizing her long-squelched (by hubby) ambition to become a big-name cinemactress. A newshawk asked Rossellini if he had ever told one of Sonali's kinsfolk that he wants to marry her. Suavely replied Roberto: "On the spur of the moment you say things you are not responsible for." Meanwhile, Sonali stayed put in her plush, air-conditioned quarters while the jasmine-scented nights of Bombay grew oppressively hotter...
...Nyasaland are trying to learn how to submerge their differences in a common federation, and experimenting with graduated extension of the franchise so that the outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur them on, the white masters in the remaining territories of Middle Africa are plunging headlong into an uncertain future, making concessions usually a step behind the demands-and sometimes a step ahead of the capacity-of their once submissive but now impatient peoples...