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...There is movement; we inch toward the ticket booth...
...railroad people, from corporate towers to the yards, seem to have sniffed the new promise. Deloyt Young, manager of the world's largest freight yard, U.P.'s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, knows every inch of his eight-mile domain, a moving mosaic of thousands of cars and engines. It is hard by the old ranch where Buffalo Bill Cody assembled his Wild West show (complete with conquered Sioux Chief Sitting Bull) and sent it out on tour aboard U.P. trains. "I don't need an economist to tell me when things are good or bad," Young says...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. THis chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying...
...grab some nonfat yogurt and trips over the body of her estranged husband, the millionaire Richie, stabbed through the heart with a carving knife from Williams-Sonoma. Because he cheated on Rosie for 25 years and then dumped her, some might say the bum deserved every stainless-steel inch. Nevertheless, Rosie tries to pull the knife out of Richie's body. With hers the only fingerprints on the murder weapon, and plenty of reasons to want to see the stinker dead, Rose Meyers, mother of two, becomes suspect...
...belonged to the boyfriend of a judge's daughter -- a roundabout response to the judge's conviction of several of his friends for various offenses. "I'm not actually aiming at anybody," he says. "But once my older brother missed a baby's head by a quarter of an inch. It was in all the news...