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Ford takes us into the past, to Shinbone before the coming of the railroad modernized the town. It is the Ford town, complete with a drunken doctor, a crusading newspaper editor, a cowardly marshall (brillantly played by Andy Devine), two saloons-one high class, and then the Spanish place down the street--and assorted cowboys and farmers. There is no formally enforced law and order; Doniphon says, "Out here a man settles his own problems...
...dreary village of Galánta, Hungary, Composer Zoltán Kodály haunted the local railroad station, watching the come-and-go of peasants lustily singing their folk songs. "I would stand open-mouthed," he once recalled, "listening to the music die away as the train bore them off. But even then it always seemed to me that a thread of melody remained trembling in the air." For Kodály, who died last week of a heart attack at 84, those simple melodies became the wellspring of a creative life that enriched the music of Hungary...
...urban land grows ever scarcer and more expensive, planners are increasingly turning their eyes skyward to the unused space overhead. And when they survey the city, the airspace that stands out most is that over open railroad tracks and highways...
...constructing a political and economic base that is the envy of its Asian friends. Factories and homes are sprouting in Seoul (pop. 3,700,000) and other cities. New roads are piercing deep into the harsh hills of the interior. "When we hammered in the spikes for a new railroad recently," said Deputy Prime Minister Key Young Chang last week, "I was reminded of American cowboy movies and the winning of the West...
Vaulting the Rails. New York City has now been presented with two new and particularly imaginative schemes for using the space over railroad tracks. The first, sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and designed by a five-man team of New York architects, proposes building over a 37-block length of the New Haven Railroad tracks on upper Park Avenue, from 97th Street, where the tracks emerge from underground, north to the Harlem River...