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...aliens and Nisei--U.S. citizens of Japanese blood...In the unfinished, tar-papered dormitories where they will live until the war ends, they made their beds on mattress ticking filled with straw...Some projects with which the Army may keep its guests busy: laying broad-gauge track on the railway down the valley; driving a highway across the Sierras...In San Francisco's Little Tokyo, store fronts were plastered with huge signs, proclaiming, "Evacuation Sale." In one window, under the sign, hung a red-white-&-blue poster: God bless America, the land we love. --TIME, April...
...Colombo, Sri Lanka Fort Railway Station on Tuesday, a farmer broke a fairly unusual world record when he used his teeth to drag a 40-ton railway carriage more than 25 meters...
...small writing studio in Harlem, he says, "I literally extracted a more personal book from that one." The book he finally wrote focuses on the inner lives and dismal family dynamic of the Lamberts, a couple of whom were minor characters in the book he abandoned. Alfred, a retired railway-bridge engineer and basement-lab inventor, is a man sliding into the mental and physical chaos of Parkinson's disease. His wife Enid devotes much of her energy to denying the seriousness of his condition, but understands it well enough to want all three of their grown children home...
...Toby Stephens, a much-praised RSC Coriolanus in 1994, calls it a "timely cutting away of dead wood for a company that was overstretched." RSC managing director Chris Foy speaks enthusiastically of a break from his company?s "well-engineered but constricting operating model, a move away from the railway timetable concept." But whether the RSC finds a new direction, or has its identity chipped away by the dogfight for vacant theaters and the struggle to survive in the carnivorous world of the West End, is a dilemma it will soon have to resolve...
...hardened by years of living in extreme conditions, was alive and reveling in the swirl of mystery surrounding his disappearance. Manser was, after all, a man who would do almost anything to get publicity for his cause. In 1996, he slid almost 3 km down a half-frozen funicular railway cable in Switzerland; three years later, he buzzed the capital of Malaysia's Sarawak province in a motorized hang glider. According to Roger Graf, who joined Manser in the mid-1980s to try to stop logging in Sarawak, where the tribe is based, all that's really certain is that...