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...expected from the obscure prairie lawyer who took office just four years earlier. "We have a President without brains," wrote the country's leading historian, George Bancroft. Bancroft was, admittedly, a Democrat, but many self-respecting Republicans were also concerned about the implications of having an untried, self-educated "rail splitter" as a leader in time of grave national crisis. Charles Francis Adams, a leading Republican and the son and grandson of Presidents, wrote of the new President-elect in his diary: "Good natured, kindly, honest, but frivolous and uncertain." The doubts and fears of many Americans were expressed...
...Osaka and five other cities. Using canisters of kerosene attached to crude timing devices, they also blew up or burned down cable connections. Thus, when railway officials tried to start the first trains of the day at 5 a.m., they found to their horror that neither signal lights nor rail switches were operating on 22 commuter lines. As a result, the system in Tokyo and Osaka remained frozen until noon, when service was partly restored...
...West Africa, is one of the largest public works projects under way in the world today. At a cost of $4.5 million a mile, it is also one of the world's most expensive. In terms of technical difficulty, the Transgabonais rivals the 1,966-mile Baikal-Amur rail line that the Soviets are pushing across Siberia. The eight forest-smashing bulls and their crews are backed by 120 more bulldozers, 450 heavy trucks and 3,800 workers who shift and terrace earth to carve out a 300-ft.-wide right-of-way. A state-of-the-art rail-laying...
...track that loops as high as 45 ft. above the city's streets: an inexpensive monorail that would help revive Detroit's demoralized downtown by shuttling people from offices to hotels, restaurants and apartment complexes. But the reality has gone way off track: the 2.9-mile automated rail system known as the Detroit People Mover, originally planned to open this month, is behind schedule, over budget, shoddily built and, critics say, unnecessary. Many Detroiters, whose only other public transportation is a creaky bus system, scorn the People Mover as "a rich folks' roller coaster." Says Ralph Stanley, the Reagan Administration...
...People Movers. The Detroit project, 80% federally funded, is one of the first U.S. tests for the innovative train, which works something like a horizontal elevator, the cars powered by electromagnetic thrust. Originally, Detroit planners hoped the People Mover would link up with a proposed area-wide light-rail commuter system. Although the rail system never got off the drawing board, the Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority decided to take the monorail money anyway...