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...represents conflict. Valtierra's grandfather came to the U.S. because he got into a fight with the son of a judge in his Mexican village and, after the man drew a knife on him, shot him. Upon arriving in the U.S. he worked for the Union Pacific railroad; was shanghaied to Alaska and was a stunt man for D.W. Griffith...
...second mural is drawn from his experiences with the railroad. While he was building a dam in Arizona, a horse and carriage he was driving panicked atop the dam and started falling down the slope. "As he was falling he prayed to God to see his parents again and then he hit a boulder which stopped his fall. He felt that it was God that saved him," Valtierra relates. The vivid blue and grey and white mural depicts his grandfather's fall...
While Winans had earlier contended that he never compromised the Journal's news columns by deliberately planting stories, he admitted to investigators that he twice wrote favorable columns at Brant's request on companies in which Brant and his clients held stock: Chicago Milwaukee, a railroad holding company, and Digital Switch, a telecommunications manufacturer. Said Winans, who was fired from the Journal after the SEC began its investigation in March: "There is much in my conduct during the last months at the Journal which was wrong ... I stand in judgment of myself as having violated fundamental tenets...
...before the war, there had been five. One oldtimer recalled that Edward FitzGerald, the translator of The Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, regularly wrote to London friends from his home near Lowestoft, 116 miles away, and counted on his letters being delivered before evening the same day. They had decent railroad service too in those days...
...thing that could damage his hero status in the black community, since it would help re-elect the Republican President many of his followers are passionately eager to defeat. In a speech last week to a nearly all-black crowd of 3,000 greeting him at a railroad station in Philadelphia, Jackson seemed to be preparing his followers for a unified effort against Reagan in the fall by stressing that their votes should not go exclusively to black candidates. Said Jackson: "When blacks vote in great numbers, our progressive white allies can win. Peace candidates can win. Latinos...