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...Secretary Volpe's feeling that "the whole [railroad] system will wind up broke and/or nationalized" [May 8] is indicative of general U.S. thinking on this subject. The two ends are hardly comparable...
...incidents were minor and unplanned; the Soviets are simply unaccustomed to dealing with crowds of aggressive newsmen. More significant was the Russian decision not to subject U.S. television film to the usual screening before allowing it to leave the country. When an NBC crew did some interviews at a railroad station, the police gave them a cordial lecture, pointing out that transportation centers are considered military facilities and off limits to photographers. NBC got to keep its film anyway. An ABC team shooting near the Kremlin was also accosted by a cop; he merely wanted to suggest a better camera...
Between 1820 and 1900, scores of artists went west by wagon, railroad or stage: painters, illustrators, draftsmen. It was, as has often been said, one of the crucial experiences in American culture, and in their work one sees the ideal of Arcadia being identified with an actual landscape. The West was not only a place but a state of imagination, which could invest almost any tract of virgin country between the Appalachians and the Rockies with a kind of epic innocence: nature unspoiled, inhabited by prelapsarian man. One itinerant painter, Worthington Wittredge, met the legendary scout Kit Carson in Santa...
...Resuming massive bombing of North Viet Nam, including military installations and supplies near Hanoi and Haiphong. The permissible targets could conceivably be expanded to almost any kind of large building and anything that moves. Less likely targets would be railroad lines carrying supplies out of China...
...more radical way to raise capital would be to organize an internal money market-a sort of Communist Wall Street-yet Yugoslavia is moving in that direction also. Two firms, the Zastava auto concern and the Belgrade-Bar railroad, have been allowed to float issues of interest-bearing and resalable bonds. More such issues are likely to be permitted, and government leaders recognize that they eventually will have to set up a market in which the bonds can be regularly traded...