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...railroad worker, Neruda (real name: Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto) was born in Parral, a small agricultural town in southern Chile. He started writing poetry at the age of eight, and persisted even though his book-hating father once destroyed his notebooks...
...their prisoners managed to escape in the confusion. But when the train stopped at Vienna, the others were hustled aboard a Volkswagen bus owned by the Austrian railroad. With the captured customs officer at the wheel, the bus rushed to Schwechat airport on the outskirts of the city. The Austrians were so anxious to avoid bloodshed that police cars, alerted to what had happened, escorted the bus to the airport instead of trying to stop...
...railroad will strengthen Tanzania's economy by opening up the southern part of the country. It will have an even more dramatic effect on landlocked Zambia, which is the world's largest exporter of copper (an estimated 750,000 tons this year). Prosperous though it is, however, Zambia has been uncomfortably dependent on the white states around it - Rhodesia and the Portuguese territories of Angola and Mozambique - since its independence...
...Orpheum Theater, take it. This has to be one of the worst groups to hobble down the pike in a long, long while. Jim Mangrum's performance as a lead singer comes off like a pitiful imitation of Mick Jagger doing a deliberately bad rendition of Grand Funk Railroad's greatest hits...
Brain Drain. What leftovers there were the Russians took away. Whole factories were put into railroad cars and shipped East. When the loot had all been carted away, the Russians even ripped up many of the railroad tracks and took them away too. While the U.S. poured Marshall Plan money into the West, the Russians siphoned off any spare cash from the East. All told, the East Germans paid Moscow an estimated $15 billion in direct reparations and untold amounts under extortionist trade agreements. When the Russians were finished the East Germans were left with only "Walter Ulbricht and some...