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...Pullman beds and wash basins, folding out of the walls like part of a Chinese puzzle, still fascinate the children on board. In the dining car, the tuxedoed steward still seats passengers at tables with vases of fresh Colorado carnations resting on the white linen. There are Rocky Mountain trout, California champagne served in silver ice buckets, and afterward a selection of cigars and cordials. Sitting in the glassed-in Vista-Dome cars, passengers gaze out at the fleeting landscape like transients in time...
...unique opportunity for a diplomat to get out of the embassy compound and rub elbows with the common people, cultural exchange, that kind of thing." A congressional committee meeting in its ornate chambers to investigate a student uprising is like "chasing S.D.S. across America in an 1890 Pullman car." Judge Julius Hoffman of the Chicago conspiracy trial is "the teeny judge, who bounces up and down on his bench so that he looks like a small girl in an oversized dress playing in her father's chair." Says Von Hoffman: "I don't want people to think...
...David, 24, calls him a "libertarian anarchist" who even raised his children by free-market rules. Friedman once offered David, then ten, and his older sister Janet a choice of Pullman berths for a cross-country train trip, or the extra price of those berths in cash. The children chose to sit up in coaches for two days and take the cash...
Socialism and Rheumatism. He was an indefatigable barnstormer, crisscrossing the U.S. in each of his presidential campaigns, riding the upper berth of a Pullman sleeper to save money, lecturing in the booming, resonant tones of a prophet. As early as 1928, he argued for old-age pensions and public works, the five-day week and unemployment insurance. When Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal made those ideas law, socialism's appeal to the U.S. working class began to diminish. "It was often said," Thomas reflected, "that Roosevelt was carrying out the Socialist Party platform. Well...
...typical robot is outrigged with a hydraulic arm that, mounted on a desk-like base, is capable of reaching out, seizing industrial material and moving it from one spot to another. The two leading U.S. manufacturers of first-generation robots are Connecticut-based Unimation Inc. (a subsidiary of Pullman Inc.) and AMF Thermatool, Inc., of New Rochelle, N.Y. (a subsidiary of AMF Co.), which between them have about 140 of their surrealistic creations (price range: $18,000 to $25,000) operating in plants at home and abroad. With the robots proving their worth in one industry after another...