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Irion worked on a railroad crew in Billings for three summers. Wielding a sledge hammer from dusk to dawn, he packed on extra muscle for battling under the boards for rebounds. Irion's father, who got him the job, worked for the Milwaukee Railroad Company before becoming a government railway inspector. Most of Irion's co-workers were illegal aliens from Mexico known as "wetbacks" because they "swim" the Rio Grande to get to Montana...
Both face and soul seem as brittle and sere as the last leaf of autumn, and when he greets Anna, who has been in Mos cow, at the St. Petersburg railroad station, his only comment is: "It's good to have you home again. It's quite irksome without you." Vronsky, who has been on the train with Anna, is the opposite...
...favorable responses were outweighed by skeptical or negative ones. Richard Peterson, senior vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank, complained that "there was nothing to help solve our rate of inflation." Joseph Lanterman, chairman of Chicago's Amsted Industries, manufacturers of railroad and industrial components, asserted that "Carter has not removed any of the uncertainties that plague the economy." Irving Seaman, chairman of Sears Bank and Trust in Chicago, called Carter's address "a bland, nothing speech. I'm even more apprehensive about the economy than before...
Most of the construction will be on property owned by the public, the MBTA and the Boston and Maine railroad. However, about 20 families and 20 businesses will have to be relocated...
...nuclear power program is mighty ambitious-much too much so, many Frenchmen complain. Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand, who clearly plans to make the atom an issue in next March's elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about a new element in the government's aggressive program...