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...trains left on the Isle of Wight or north of Inverness in Scotland. Sparing nothing, Beeching even wants to shut down as uneconomical the station that serves the Queen's Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Earmarked for scrapping are 1,200 of Britain's beloved "puffing billy" steam engines, 350,000 freight cars and 7,800 passenger cars. By taking such measures, Beeching hopes to save as much as $412 million annually and eliminate much of the Railways' deficit by 1970. But with Britain already plagued by rising unemployment, there will be labor pains if his ideas...
Then Egypt's boss rapped out a succession of telephoned commands. To the air force: alert the bombers and fighters in case the Syrian rebels call for help. To the navy (six destroyers and ten submarines): steam northward and await orders. To the army: prepare to move in case the Israelis might be thinking of intervention; place missiles on launch pads ready to fire...
...again. The villages of Sebudi, Sorgah, and Sebih were engulfed by a lethal black cloud of searing, 230° ash that roasted hundreds where they knelt. Rivers of grey-black lava boiled over Agung's southern lip and flowed in fiery rivulets down stream beds, raising clouds of steam; heavy rains, possibly caused by the heat of the volcano, mixed with the sulphurous ash to form an acid that killed plant life for five miles around...
Among the exhibits at the show is a detailed model of a steam-driven fire engine about two and one-half feet long, and a series of sketches of President Kennedy...
...reinforced or supplied systematically from North Vietnam, china or anyplace else-they depend for weapons primarily upon whatever they can capture--many are home-made." But the North Vietnamese, even the Chinese, may step up the pressure if it looks like the southern movement will fail on its own steam. Needless to say, this could escalate into a Korean War situation...