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...into a comfortable bed; air conditioning and heating; a large window so clean it could pose for a Windex commercial; and a button to summon a. sure enough, smiling porter. There is red carpeting on the floor and even on the corridor walls of the 32-year-old, 91-ton Budd-built first-class car. There are privacy and freedom and a sense of camaraderie aboard. Things not there seem almost as important: no seat belts, Muzak, or portentous announcements; no sardine-can seating, yowling infants, elusive nanny-stewardesses, plastic trays of plastic food. And, St. Christopher be praised...
...massive lintels, and the low triangular-coffered ceiling in areas off the atrium, are made of exposed reinforced concrete. But it is not the coarse béton brut introduced to architecture by Le Corbusier. The concrete looks almost as fine as beeswax. Poured into forms as carefully made as cabinets, and impregnated with marble dust, it becomes an extraordinarily subtle substance with a pink surface bloom. Though the building looks handmade throughout, it is reticently so. Nothing in its materials or their articulation interferes with the job in hand: to display works of art in tranquillity...
...that two C-47 gunships crammed with Gatling guns-Viet Nam's "Puff the Magic Dragon"-could have turned the tide for the moderates. But they would also have exposed the U.S. involvement, so instead it was decided to arm the guerrillas clandestinely. Says Stockwell: "We had tons of weapons shipped in, some of it 'sanitized' stuff [unmarked as to origin], and lots of World War II arms which the agency figured anybody could acquire anywhere in the world." The equipment was flown to Kinshasa, Zaire's capital, aboard C-141s belonging...
...scorching sun roasts the skeletons of jacaranda trees. The soil, dry and hard, looks like baked clay. Rivers, once navigated by 5,000-ton ships, are now so choked by sand bars that a canoe can barely nose through. Bridges cross dry gulches overgrown with weeds and shrubs. Many once plentiful plants and birds are gone, and human beings who live there are disfigured by skin cancer. The scene is 300 sq. mi. in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, a once lush strip north of Rio de Janeiro that is now on its way to becoming a desert...
Some of the stolen equipment is enormous. A 50-ton crawler bulldozer was stolen from a Chicago-area dealer and hauled away on a weekend, when this kind of equipment is forbidden on the highways. A full 13½ ft- wide, the machine is worth $130,000. It was later traced through Indiana and finally disappeared forever in the coal-mining area of Kentucky...