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OVERLAND TRAIL CLICKETY-CLACK BACK TO A MORE GRACIOUS PAST If there is a time machine that allows you to relive the days when going by rail meant going in style, when women dressed up and wore gloves and men sported fedoras and suits with wide lapels, it is the Overland Trail, a 1939 club lounge car that was once a part of the Southern Pacific streamliner that ran from Oakland, Calif., to Chicago. Owners Bill and Debbie Hatrick of Santa Ana, Calif., have restored the car to its original condition and made it available for private parties and public...
...local barber who'll give you an on-train trim for a $5 donation. Most of the streamliners of yesteryear had barbershops, Nickles explains. They were "an amenity for business travelers from the '30s to the late '50s. It was all part of the time when train travel was gracious" www.overlandtrail.com 800-KEY-RAIL...
...McCain in New Hampshire to an aide, and later in Michigan when he refused to call the victorious McCain at all. But we didn't know he could be a sore winner until last week when, in a New York Times interview, he batted away every opportunity to be gracious to McCain, snatching sour grapes from the jaws of victory. Reminded of how McCain had boosted turnout in the primaries, Bush snapped, "Well, then, how come he didn't win?" Asked whether he had any second thoughts about his tactics, Bush replied, "Like what? Give me an example. What should...
...suspended his presidential campaign, the telephone number at his Arizona mountain retreat became the hottest 10 digits in politics. Callers ranged from Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, who refrained (for the moment) from begging McCain to launch an independent bid, to George W. Bush, who awkwardly thanked McCain for his gracious exit without daring to ask for the endorsement the Senator had so pointedly withheld. But the ones who dialed en masse were the would-be peacemakers--the Bush emissaries, McCain intermediaries and unallied freelance negotiators--trying to save the Republican Party by brokering a postprimary reconciliation. Party chairman Jim Nicholson...
...were better behaved than they were two years ago when Ralph Reed came to speak. On that occasion, a group of overgrown infants in the audience decided to stage a public orgy in order to prevent the Christian Coalition leader from even delivering his address. Yesterday's audience was gracious enough to permit Buchanan a few words. However, when the floor was opened for questions, Harvard's true colors shined through...