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Amid lawsuits, contract disputes and turf battles among the parties involved-Amtrak, the railroads, the architects, the contractor, Congress, the Park Service, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Departments of Interior and Transportation-construction finally began in May 1974. "I'll never forget that day they put the jackhammers in the floor," says Nita Shaw, a secretary at the station for 31 years. "I had to walk over to the Capitol to calm down and stop crying...
...outrageous, confounding. Do you actually mean to say that some maniac has been filling Tylenol capsules with cyanide? Not that the wretched inventiveness of modern terrorism and science fiction have placed such acts entirely beyond the imagination. But we are not talking here about a bombing in a Bologna railroad station or of the Day of the Triffids. This is American everydaydom, the casual course of events. Alarmed, the mind skates hurriedly to the ifs: If Tylenol, why not aspirin? If drugs, why not food? October is the month for Halloween, after all. The razor blade in the apple...
...American bankruptcy law four years ago, such firms can now more easily reorganize their operations and try to become profitable again while they make partial payments on their debts. Perm Central Corp. has been able to emerge as a strong manufacturer and real estate operator after shedding the railroad operations that propelled it into bankruptcy court in 1970. Last week Joe B. Freeman Jr., chairman of AM International Inc., the Chicago-based business-equipment firm that filed for bankruptcy protection in April, announced that he now expects the company to turn a small profit during its 1983 fiscal year, after...
Stevens is particularly incensed because he has been trying to push through a bill that would give the federally owned Alaska Railroad to the state, lock, stock and pork barrel. Metzenbaum favors a House version of the plan, which would at least require oil-rich Alaska to pay 75% of the railroad's liquidation cost. Stevens got so mad he publicly threatened to go to Ohio to campaign against Metzenbaum's reelection. Says Metzenbaum: "I may send him the plane ticket...
...technical skills, little seminars in comedy and verbal brinkmanship that can be both tutorials for the trade and, for the paying customers, a standard against which other stand-up comedy is measured. In Johnny Goes Home, Carson is shown doing something else uncharacteristic: losing his grip. Dangling from a railroad bridge as a freight rumbles above him, his arms give out and he tumbles into the water close beneath. Walking ashore, he laughs and says, "If I'd waited another five seconds I would have made it." Historians of comedy, take note: this may be the only recorded occasion...