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Consider L.A.'s notorious sprawl. Banham finds the city did not spread like a cancer to its present 455 sq. mi. Its precise shape was predetermined decades ago by the Pacific Electric Railway's network of rapid-transit tracks. Though critics frequently scoff that such sprawl makes L.A. seem like 100 communities in search of a city, Banham sees instead the excitement of diversity. The jumble of freeways that has replaced the old P.E. railway has maintained the diversity. Far from being destroyers of the urban texture, Banham says, the superhighways "seem to have fixed Los Angeles...
...book is a mosaic of fascinating vignettes, both ghastly and ridiculous. Railway workers were allowed to abandon the otherwise mandatory Heil Hitler arm salute because it was mistaken for a signal and caused accidents. Goethe's favorite oak tree near Weimar became the central point around which the Buchenwald extermination camp was built. In one village, a neighbor told a mother that the name of her missing soldier son had been read on a list of German P.O.W.s held by the Russians. Far from being grateful, the mother thereupon denounced her well-meaning informant to the authorities for listening...
...early days of the fighting. Young recruits, many of them students, are being trained to blend in with the peasants, who feed them, and serve as lookouts, scouts and hit-and-run saboteurs. Twice the guerrillas have knocked out power in Dacca, and they have kept the Dacca-Chittagong railway line severed for weeks. Wherever possible they raise the green, red and gold Bangla Desh flag. They claim to have killed 25,000 Pakistani troops, though the figure may well be closer to 2,500 plus 10,000 wounded (according to a reliable Western estimate). Resistance fighters already control...
...train. Though high-speed equipment has long made it possible to cover several times that distance in an eight-hour workday, the union is determined to keep its pay scale tied fairly close to that 100-mile base. (The union made a deal late last week with one railway, the Chicago and North Western, to modify the 100-mile rule in some circumstances-in return for a 42% wage hike over the next 31 years...
...June's college graduates were women-and they want to put their degrees to work. Now that civil rights laws bar discrimination by sex, more and more women are demanding relatively high-pay, blue-collar jobs. Federal courts have ruled against companies that refused to hire women as railway agents and telephone switchmen. In the courts, women are now challenging a variety of work rules, including company policies against assigning women to premium-pay night work. Certainly discrimination exists, especially in the higher ranks. The percentage of women in architecture, college teaching and some other professions has dropped significantly...