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Harriman's public history is, with only a few gaps, parallel to and part of the sweep of U.S. foreign policy since the eve of World War II. Son of Railroad Baron E. H. Harriman (Union Pacific), whom Teddy Roosevelt castigated as one of the "malefactors of great wealth," William Averell Harriman has been a Secretary of Commerce (under Harry Truman), Governor of New York (Nelson Rockefeller unseated him in 1958), ambassador to Moscow during the war and to the Court of St. James's afterward. Of the major World War II conferences, he missed only Quebec...
...recent months, the board has rebuked railroads for an accident rate that has jumped 71% in six years. Applying to a railroad accident the sophisticated techniques used to determine the causes of plane crashes-an obvious but hitherto unheard-of innovation -it has found the "probable cause" (a switchman's error) of a collision in New York City last year. After the foundering of a 60-year-old freighter on Lake Huron in 1966 (28 died), it ordered the Coast Guard to intensify inspection of older ships plying the Great Lakes. Even a proposal to widen the breadth...
...Smith regime in Rhodesia, from which Zambia bought almost all of its imports. The government thereupon had to impose rationing, buy its goods in more expensive markets and ship by air and truck routes the bulk of the copper that once moved cheaply over Rhodesia's railroad to ports in Mozambique. As a result, Kaunda has had to curtail his $1.2 billion four-year development plan. Because of high black unemployment, average income is only about $200 a year...
...this peaceful town, pretty birds sing and the sumac twines. Along the edge of the mothering sea stand colonial cottages reaped from the wasted fields of the American Revolution and threshed into 20th century quaintness. Church steeples point for all to see toward the virtuous life. Railroad tracks dwindle northward toward Boston, an unconcerned hour away. This is Tarbox, Mass., the setting of John Updike's new novel Couples, where primitive American democracy reveals itself in town meetings, and three streets of the business district are named Hope, Charity and Divinity...
...variety of jobs until, at 18, an accident cost him three of his fingers. He collected $1,000 in insurance and invested the money in a Milanese workshop on a back street ironically named Via Progresso. Valente scratched out a living manufacturing everything from electric hot plates to railroad accessories, until a café owner, Achille Gaggia, came to him with an idea for an espresso machine. For ten years, Gaggia had been unable to interest any manufacturers in his process; Valente saw the potential immediately. It was 1947, and "I realized that busy people could no longer linger over...