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...class coaches are as much a part of the Indian scene today as they were in Kipling's raj. But even more than carrying people, India's trains are necessary to keep the country's economy moving. Nearly 70% of India's food, fuel and freight are transported in 420,580 railway cars over the system's 39,000 miles of tracks. Indian Railways is the fourth largest in the world* and India's largest single employer, with 1.4 million workers. Last week the rail system was hit by a strike that could strangle...
...piloting the airline through a difficult cost-cutting program initiated by his flamboyant predecessor, Najeeb Halaby, who was ousted in 1972. Under Seawell, Pan Am has trimmed several thousand employees from its work force, slashing it to the level of the mid-1960s, when the volume of passengers and freight was much lower. Among those who were forced to bail out were a flock of highly paid vice presidents. Says Analyst Mike Steinberg of Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "For the first time you have a management structure that knows where they are going...
...swimming pool and a barbecue pit of roughly bullring dimensions. Inside the house are enough walkie-talkies, mobile telephones, cameras, video-tape machines, tape recorders, amplifiers, speakers and other electronic gadgets to keep Haggard occupied for years. He is happiest, however, tinkering with his $50,000 model railroad: 250 freight cars, 35 locomotives and a scale replica of the Bakersfield terminal. Its main line is a kid's dream that runs through the living room, across the sun deck, through the sauna, a bathroom and a bedroom, and then out onto a trestle high above the rear patio...
...freight train leavin' town...
...without his asking, just as the "snuff queens"-the country term for groupies-swarm around him at concerts now. At 16, he set up housekeeping in Eugene, Ore., with one of the girls. It lasted three months, and when it broke up, he went back to Bakersfield on a freight. And he ran into trouble with...