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Kang Sheng: I have to tell you that you are not here to argue a case. You cannot insist on conditions, and what is more, you cannot insist on bargaining with the proletarian headquarters. The problem of Kwangsi, particularly that of suspension of railway traffic, has been dragging on for two months. I now want to ask you: are you opposed...
Delays Endured. The merger would combine the 8,282-mile Great Northern Railway, the 6,747-mile Northern Pacific, the 8,538-mile Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the 922-mile Spokane, Portland & Seattle. The resulting 26,509-mile system, including a few subsidiaries, would serve 17 states and two Canadian provinces, from Chicago to Vancouver, from Galveston to Winnipeg. The merged northern lines, to be known as the Burlington Northern Inc., would rank third among U.S. railroads (after the Penn Central and the Southern Pacific), with 1967 revenues of $875 million...
Next morning, when the country's leaders took a train to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, another crowd of 10,000 broke police lines, scattered the band and the honor guard, and mobbed the railway station, shouting: "Long live Dubcek!" "Long live Svoboda...
...Amante Anglaise concerns a particularly squalid and brutal murder in a small provincial town: Claire Lannes kills her middleaged, deaf-mute cousin for no apparent reason, hacks up the body in a cellar and dumps the pieces from a railway bridge onto various passing trains. If there is one thing Madame Duras likes, it is a nice crime of passion, the bloodier the better. Shots, screams, strangled cries, murdered wives and jealous husbands recur in many of her stories, and so does a restless and tormented heroine. Claire Lannes is only the latest in a long line of broody ladies...
...dismaying still are his long silences and gestures of overanxious assent. These are the times when he is learning a new part, not conversing but understudying, snatching your soul away before you have time to sell it. The knowledge gained in this way is astonishing. From his father, a railway man, he learned the names and locations of all the American cities with populations of more than five thousand...