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...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 Fe in 1866. "Nature had made a deep impression on this man's mind," Wittredge observed, "and I could not but think of him standing alone on top of a great mountain far away from all human contact, worshiping in his way a grand effect of nature until it entered into...
Between 1966 and 1970, derailments doubled to 2,394 a year. Santa Fe President John Reed likens the situation to maintaining a house in good repair: "If you don't do a little every year, it eventually starts coming apart all at once." Volpe estimates that in order to keep up with expected increases in traffic, railroads will have to spend an awesome $36 billion or more on yard and track rebuilding and new rolling stock in the next ten to twelve years. That is roughly double their current annual rate of capital expenditures...
...technology exists to build a modern rail network. The Santa Fe now boasts a $12 million automated yard in Kansas City that can handle switching for 3,000 cars a day with only three men to uncouple them. It is technically feasible to run trains with no crewmen except an engineer to blow a warning whistle in dangerous situations. At present, though, these developments only make more painful the contrast between the advanced rail system that the U.S. could have and the dilapidated one that exists...
...state's two congressional seats. The most arresting is a former New York Playboy Bunny, who several years ago changed her name to Sparkle Plenty "to create a new image." Formerly Cheryl Boone of Coaldale, Pa., Candidate Plenty, 28, faces some problems in convincing her neighbors in Santa Fe of the seriousness of her campaign, despite her memorable slogans: "Put a little Sparkle in Congress" and "We all need Plenty...
...poor one indeed. Certainly political prisoners exist in this country today. The authorities do not consider you sufficiently rehabilitated until you have lost all traces of any millitancy you once possessed. It reminds me, frighteningly, of George Orwell's 1984. DAVID SKINNER Santa Fe...