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...rare hour with Sam as we approached sundown and Alexandria: Nita had talked him into pulling off his shoes and lying down in a Pullman. "I don't golf, I don't fish. This is my recreation," he said. "I love it." He went into the offstage dealing you do to separate a candidate from the pack and make him a front runner, and if this were a political account we would put the tricks into the ledger. Moreover, on the next day, we would have a quiet hour with the candidate and find him an intelligent, well-intentioned...
Though the young Larson liked to draw dinosaurs and gorillas, he did not dream of becoming a cartoonist. Instead, as a communications major at Washington State University in Pullman, he hoped someday to save the world from mundane advertising. As it turned out, the world was not ready for salvation when he graduated, so he played the banjo in a duo and worked at a music store. The latter job so depressed Larson that in 1976 he temporarily quit to try his hand at drawing. In two days he sketched a few cartoons and sold them...
...event, the chaos aboard Flight 73 was all too real. "They herded us together and ordered us to lie down on the floor," recalled Dick Melhart, of Pullman, Wash., who had been thinking all day about how he should try to escape if the opportunity came. Said David Jodice, of Vienna, Va.: "They were shouting at us in pitch darkness, and then we totally panicked when they threw a hand grenade at the passengers." At that point, said British Passenger Michael Thexton, "everyone made a dash for it. I climbed out onto a wing and jumped down onto the tarmac...
...drastically less affluent after upkeep and renovations. "Sooner or later the cost of maintaining a car gets to you," says Larry Haines, 71, a retiree who has spent nearly $40,000 on the Clover Colony in 14 years. Haines' car is a bargain compared with the Caritas, a 1948 Pullman bought for $10,000 three years ago by Clark Johnson, a Denver physicist. Some $280,000 later, the Caritas is an art-deco beauty, its 14 roomettes ripped out and replaced with a lounge, dining room, kitchen, master bedroom and an open-air platform. Richard Horstmann, 50, a political consultant...
Elbow grease and friends help. Larry Bauman, 36, a petroleum geologist, and five partners bought the Palm Leaf in 1982 for $5,000. After 5,000 hours and an investment of $100,000, the gleaming silver Pullman is within a few weeks of rolling out of Denver. Is it worth it? To paraphrase J.P. Sr.: If you have to ask, it's not. "You have a sense of travel in a train car," says Bauman. "In a yacht, what can you do? Go out to the horizon and turn around and come back. Here you can see America...