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...found a scene straight out of hell. Sprawled across the floor in the 100 degrees heat lay the naked bodies of 18 other young men. In their efforts to escape from the locked boxcar, they left gashes on the wood lining of the heavy metal door and used railroad spikes in a vain attempt to gouge through the floor. They had removed their clothes to lessen the effect of the intense heat, also to no avail. Some had chewed their tongues during convulsions, spilling blood on their cast-off clothing...
After the 19 climbed into the boxcar in El Paso at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the coyote threw a couple of railroad spikes in after them. He said the men could use them to punch through the car floor when they reached their destination. Then he slammed the door shut and locked it. But the smugglers apparently did not realize that this was an airtight steel car, lined with wood and insulating foam, designed to carry beer. The floor was nine inches thick...
...fall, Baldwin will teach a seminar onempirical approaches to corporate finance, and inthe spring she will lead a seminar on the theoryof corporate finance. She is currently writing apaper with the working title: "Selling GovernmentAssets: the Lessons of Conrail," which deals withthe government's auctioning of the then-newlyprofitable railroad...
...challenge as the pendulum starts back in the current re-regulatory climate will be to maintain a sensible balance. Says Swartz, the railroad president: "The question should be, 'At what point do regulations become no longer instructive, and entirely counterproductive?' " The Constitution's framers, notes Richard Epstein, University of Chicago law professor, were "deeply suspicious of government." But after the experiences of the early 1980s, today's legislators will be wary of too little government as well...
Nevertheless, Smith took the stand to give an emotional account of the experiences that led her father, a soft-spoken welder at the Santa Fe railroad yards and assistant pastor of St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church, to join the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal struggle against segregation. She described the "feelings of inferiority" suffered by her children because they attended schools that were considered "black" though large numbers of white children attended them. Her lawyers contended that many of Topeka's schools remain "racially identifiable" because of a preponderance of black or white students. They argued that schools with...