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...LAST STEAM RAILROAD IN AMERICA Photographs by O. Winston Link; text by Thomas H. Garver (Abrams; $49.50). If you were in the driver's seat, it was the embodiment of Manifest Destiny. If you were in its way, as were the tribes of the Great Plains, it was the iron horse, snorting emissary of the unstoppable paleface invasion. Today the sooty beast is the stuff of nostalgia. This is a book of homage to those vanished symbols of expansion and industrial might. The evocative old images recall a time when belching smoke and slashing rail lines were signs of progress...
...average day, at least 4,000 Mexican trucks cross the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge in downtown Laredo, where only 20 customs agents are available to work the import dock. Those agents have to inspect insurance, driver's licenses and immigration papers and look for narcotics and violations of trade-compliance laws. Checking a vehicle for faulty brakes or bald tires is way down the list and not necessarily a customs agent's responsibility, according to chief inspector David Higgerson, the cargo director for U.S. Customs in southern Texas...
Serious tragedies occur almost weekly. Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...
...every time a shuttle doesn't arrive. The last time I did that. I had been waiting at the Science Center ten minutes after an evening shuttle was scheduled to come. When it didn't. I walked home and called the shuttle service. The operator told me that the driver had reported he had been two minutes late--I had waited for 10 and then decided to walk...
...literary renown, hung out in pubs, listened to American jazz and privately mocked the arty, Bloomsbury pretensions of their dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three subalterns, a Glaswegian driver and a jeep breaking down and refusing to restart somewhere in Germany. Both times I became incapable with laughter...