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...Santa Fe and the Pennsylvania for little Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad, a main bypass around Chicago for transcontinental freight. Last week Heineman announced that he is after a much bigger prize: the long (7,870 miles) and longtime ailing Chicago & North Western Railway, which runs from Chicago to Lander...
...artists, the immensity of the new West was an overwhelming experience. One German-trained painter, Albert Bierstadt, who accompanied General F. W. Lander's surveying expedition to Oregon in 1858, is said to have sketched a spectacular formation in the Rockies, then refused to paint it, explaining in despair: "Few people would believe they are real rocks." Painters also found their ingenuity taxed by the great spaces and the harsh light of the West. Lacking an adequate technique for handling light, they often fell back on filling their canvases with lurid sunsets, fire, even rainbows, to give the impact...
...Sidney Bechet (rhymes with say-hey) was onstage, looking the man of distinction in his pinstripe suit and flashing diamond ring. He pointed the business end of his straight soprano saxophone at the rafters and let its penetrating tone wail out. With the unsophisticated beat of the born Dixie-lander and the heart-rending inflections of one who has known the blues, Bechet played favorite tunes, e.g., Sunny Side of the Street, My Man, Big Chief. The crowd roared approval and the critics agreed. "His accents . . . touched me deeply by their simple humanity, as if they came from the entrails...
After an acorn fell on Chicken-licken's head, she convinced Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander and Turkey-lurkey that the sky was falling. They all got so excited that Fox-lox ate them...
This is what Adenauer considers essential to the West German security: 1) a German "protective police force," highly mobile and armed with fully automatic weapons, to be administered not by the various German Lander governments (which run West Germany's present ill-armed police), but by the federal government; 2) creation of a Western European army to which West Germany could contribute troops; 3) more Western troops in Germany, perhaps as many as 15 divisions, including ten armored...