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...service? The couplings on many passenger coaches are so faulty that the locomotive sometimes chugs out of the station leaving the cars behind. Trains from La Paz, Bolivia, and Asunción, Paraguay, often arrive three days late; the 250-mile trip from Santa Fe south to Buenos Aires often takes 14 hours and sometimes more. Cattlemen have angrily protested to the government about cattle trains from the pampas that arrive at the stockyards with 20% of the livestock dead...
...restore ceremony to their services. And the big branches of Christianity more and more make common cause in facing the world; last week the Santa Fe Archdiocese announced that it would join the New Mexico Council of Churches-the first time that a Catholic church ever chose to affiliate with the Protestants and Orthodox in the federated National Council of Churches...
Died. Randall Davey, 77, leader of Santa Fe's art colony, best known for equestrian studies that convey the raw-edged excitement of race tracks with gaudy colors and slapdash compositions, but most appreciated for his brutally incisive portraits (at fees up to $10,000) of such notables as John Galsworthy and the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal; of injuries when his Jaguar overturned near Baker, Calif...
...James Monroe in 1825 had forever prohibited any U.S. settlement beyond the upper Mississippi and the present states of Missouri and Arkansas, the frontiersmen paid no attention. By the time Monroe's proclamation reached the frontier, it had been pushed as far west as Spanish Texas and Santa Fe. The grizzlies were similarly surmountable. Pathfinder Jedediah Smith jerked his mangled head from the jaws of one and went on to discover the South Pass gateway through the Rockies and the last missing link in the Oregon Trail. The Plains Indians, who were some of history's toughest cavalrymen...
...John's College in Annapolis, Md., chartered in 1784, has duplicated itself at a 260-acre campus of rolling wooded hills in Santa Fe, N. Mex. The prescribed curriculum at both campuses is 130 "basic books" of Western thought; each student body is restricted to 300; the faculty is interchangeable under a single president, Richard D. Weigle. Only the architecture is different: something called "modified territorial" in Santa Fe and Georgian colonial in Annapolis...