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The idea of a railroad as small as the Denver & Rio Grande Western (2,500 miles of track) trying to swallow one as big as the Southern Pacific (13,000 miles) conjures up memories of the Little Engine That Could. Yet the Rio Grande has emerged as the front runner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: New Coupling On the Rails | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

For the young career seeker of either sex, money is a draw. Salaries can run + from $20,000 to $35,000 a year, plus generous tips. Providing such routine services as travel arrangements, sight-seeing tours, secretaries, translators and after-hours tailors and florists brings in respectable gratuities. Prestidigitation -- securing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Magicians at the Desk | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

In a sense, the only thing against Luce was her ability to play many roles and break all the rules, as a woman conquering what was primarily a man's world. As one of the first great career women in American history, Luce found herself alternately patronized by those who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's First Renaissance Woman : Clare Boothe Luce: 1903-1987 | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Parts of Chambers County, Texas, have lost 9 ft. of coast to Galveston Bay in the past nine months. Louisiana has shrunk by 300 sq. mi. since 1970; entire parishes may disappear in the next 50 years. At Boca Grande Pass, an inlet on the Gulf Coast of Florida, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Shrinking Shores | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

On whether the Attorney General will be able to investigate Noriega fully. If it were not for Latin American strongmen, civil or military, we would be speaking English from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. We have been investigated like all Latin American public figures by the agencies of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noriega: You Have to Live Here to Understand | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

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