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...speech was filled with the names of black and African leaders. In a brief verbal history of blacks in America, she lauded "the black women with prices on their heads who organized and ran the underground railroad who carried guns, don't forget that...
...been scared. "It was the most frightening thing that ever happened to me," he confided last week to the London Daily Mail, adding that the pilot had not seen such weather in 26 years. Since then Getty has had to rely on such humdrum transport as yachts, private railroad cars and limousines. But safety can be monotonous, and when Getty decided to move permanently from England to his Malibu, Calif., estate this spring, he took his life in his hands. "I will go on a jumbo," he said with bravado, "and I shall probably treat myself to a first-class...
Come Saturday morning the staging area behind the old railroad depot was full of yapping dogs and eager drivers, who made last-minute adjustments to their birchwood sleds, dosed their teams with cod-liver oil, and administered suppositories so that the dogs would excrete before and not during the race. As the town's lone vet scurried about treating sore legs and nervous stomachs, sheriffs deputies shooed away an occasional stray Dalmation or schnauzer...
...people off New York streets, untreated garbage brought disease to the suburbs, Chicagoans and Pittsburghers lived in perpetual smog -the word coined by a Glasgow sanitary engineer in 1905. The author's words and pictures also jolt the modern reader with the horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and even home cooking. Writes Bettmann of that time: "The masses were forced to subsist on a crude and scanty diet of which tea and bread were staples, supplemented now and then by soup or stew of questionable origin...
...chosen few. Other trains that he recalls, now "annulled forever, the tracks torn up." include the old Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn, India's His Highness the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, and that sans pareil the London-Edinburgh Flying Scotsman, now privately owned by a wealthy English railroad...