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...camp until she was eleven. "I loved woods and flowers," she recalls, "and some said I could become a biologist." Instead, brought to the U.S. by a suburban Chicago couple, small, bright Refugee Rozlapa fell in love with Spanish at La Grange (Ill.) High School. With a George M. Pullman Scholarship, she wound up at Chicago, where she was Spanish Club president and earned a better than 3.7 average. Now she has a Fulbright fellowship to study in Madrid, hopes eventually to teach "in a large university like Chicago," where she can research and translate from the whole spectrum...
...protection of the law. The section has been used only three times. During the Reconstruction era, Ulysses S. Grant declared several counties in rebellion (notably in South Carolina), employed federal troops to arrest defiant Klansmen. In 1895 Grover Cleveland invoked the section to crush a strike against the Pullman Co. that had halted Midwestern railroad traffic. Four years ago, President Eisenhower used 333 to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock. Attorney General Kennedy might also have relied, for legal authority, on the Federal Government's undisputed right to maintain interstate commerce. "The entire strength of the nation...
...Valentine's Day massacre. Imagine that your only traveling to Florida. Finally, picture yourself on a train way out is to disguise yourself and join an all-girls band with nothing but girls, all of them in flimsy negligees, one of them Marilyn Monroe, crawling all over your Pullman berth. Just imagine...
Frisco's Gilliland also put Frisco engineers to work to design a special auto-carrying freight car. They devised a triple-deck, 85-ft. flatcar capable of carrying twelve standard or 15 compact cars v. eight or ten cars piggybacked. The Frisco commissioned Pullman Inc. to build a prototype, and after testing it ordered 129 more. The first went into service in August, proved so economical that the St. Louis-Dallas delivery charge was reduced to $65.05 for a standard car, $54 for a compact. By the end of this month, when all 130 of the new cars...
From Los Angeles the private Pullman rolled to El Paso, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Niagara Falls, New York and Chicago, with leisurely, de luxe stopovers in each city. This week Tyler and friends headed for San Francisco and home. The whole excursion will cost the old porter about $15,000. Said Tyler: "I've got enough money left over to last me the rest of my life. But if I hit the Sweepstakes again in October, I'll hire another car and come back...