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...about miniature ones? Builders of tiny boats-and trains and planes and rockets-can find a model world at Polks Hobbies Store at Fifth Ave. and 32nd St. Miniaturists of another persuasion can find doll-house furniture of all periods at B. Shackman at Fifth Ave. and 16th St. Railroad buffs should be prepared to meet their mecca at the Model Railroad Equipment Corp., 23 W. 45th...
...father to Bob Dylan, who supplies some of the candidate's favorite lines. ("It [the world] looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.") Chip lives with his wife Caron in a $8,100 mobile home near the Plains railroad station. A member of the Plains city council, he plans to go into the family peanut business. Some day he may run for higher office...
...warred over. The Mormons went west that way, just a few miles south, their cuts in the sides of the hills for their carts still visible. Lawyer Abraham Lincoln had stood on a bluff just 100 miles west and picked the spot where he would start the Union Pacific Railroad three years later from the White House, the steel ribbon that would finally bind the Union...
They spirited slaves up that way on a branch of the Underground Railroad out of Missouri, secreting them in the old limestone farmhouses that had grown up beside the creeks that flooded in the spring and ran dry in the fall. Henry Wallace, of the family that helped revolutionize agriculture, was born down the road and went on to be Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture. Glenn Martin lay on the nearby hills and watched the birds glide and dive, then went off to build his famous airplanes. Jesse James staged his first successful train robbery on the railroad...
...past two years, Boston's plans, like those of most cities, have been slowed by inflation, recession and the gradual drying up of federal urban renewal funds. Even so, two new projects are almost ready to go. On the southern edge of downtown, an old railroad terminal will be improved to serve as a transportation center that should anchor other developments in the area. In the very heart of the downtown retail area, demolition has begun on the site for a $220 million shopping project like no other in the U.S. Called Lafayette Place, it will include department stores...