Word: railroading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were no echoes of decency at the next stop, a short bus ride from Warsaw. In 1943 the outside of Treblinka was designed like a Hollywood set to assuage the arriving victims and make them easier to manage. Bewildered Jews, released from cattle cars, saw a mock railroad station, complete with buffet and flower beds. Hours later the passengers were forced to strip and take "showers." They were crammed into gas chambers so tightly that babies were often thrust in over the heads of adults. The doors were then closed and the gas jets turned on. There were...
Nevertheless, Harris has come a long way by being aggressive. The daughter of a railroad dining-car waiter and a civil servant mother, she finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what...
...Some railroad towns also would surge. For example, the population of Alliance, Neb., has jumped from 7,000 to 12,000 since 1976 because of increased traffic on the Burlington Northern. All across the country, railroads would need to upgrade their aging roadbeds, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, to handle the huge new volumes of coal and other freight. The entire construction effort, says Economist Alan Greenspan, would be rather like building a new Saudi Arabia in the middle...
...crowd around the breakfast bar -cleverly constructed in the semi-antique mode from old railroad baggage carts-admiringly described Wilson as "the P.T. Barnum of the auction business." Barnum, it will be remembered, held it true that "there is a sucker born every minute." To encourage five-figure bids, Wilson provided shuttle buses, disposable toothbrushes in rest rooms, free phones, simultaneous translation for a group of 25 Japanese, and $300,000 worth of frankly fabulous food catered by Los Angeles Restaurateur Robert J. Morris. The wine flowed like water, and so did the Perrier. "I think...
...troops fighting on his behalf. Armed largely with captured Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles, Savimbi's 12,000 guerrillas freely roam the countryside, seizing towns and villages at will, disappearing when the Cubans or government troops appear. Savimbi's soldiers have shut down the vital Benguela railroad, which once carried ore from mines in Zaire and Zambia to the Atlantic Ocean port of Lobito. The disruption of rail service has given Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda no choice but to reopen his country's rail link with Rhodesia, the only alternative route...