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...Sept. 28, a 101-car Illinois Central Gulf freight train carrying some dozen esoteric and highly dangerous chemicals derailed in Livingston, La. Though no one was injured, the ensuing explosion and chemical fires forced the evacuation of 2,800 residents. In Baton Rouge, La., last week, a preliminary hearing conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that there may have been another dangerous, if less esoteric, substance on board the train that day: bourbon...
...substance of the June rally never made it to most news reports David Livingston, a United Auto Workers leader, denounced the American nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as intended to intimidate the Soviet government not save lives by ending the war. But the New York TV network affiliates passed up such statements in favor of an interview with the city's mayor. Ed Koch, who said. It's terrific to try to affect the conscience of the world. It's just regrettable they didn't have a similar demonstration in Moscow. Koch initially did not support a freeze resolution...
...sting's targets have been convicted so far. Some of the other defendants cite Livingston's seeming mental problems in their defense. The shoplifting charges against Livingston were dropped, and he is now posted to the FBI office in Chicago. He returns periodically to Miami to testify against his dupes...
...kind of academic catch-up game-raiding superstar talent from the faculties of such schools as Harvard and Princeton. Its weapon: a gusher of endowment money, fueled by oil wells on 2 million acres of West Texas land donated by the state in 1883. Says U.T. Vice President William Livingston: "All the money in the world won't create a great university. But you can't create a great university without...
...fifth novel is his first set in the West. The Sporting Club, his debut, occurs up in Michigan, Hemingway country, while his best novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade, takes place in Key West (again Hemingway turf), where McGuane lived and worked. Although McGuane, 42, moved to Livingston, Mont., in 1968, he has not mined the region until now. His Montana has none of the romantic magic of Zane Grey's glowing hills. In Nobody's Angel the sky is harsh, the mountains formidable, the rivers icebound. The town of Deadrock (read Livingston) is the focal point...