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...from an outsize bed and shower to a full kitchen and dinette -- "plus I got all my stuff on there," such as two televisions and a VCR -- he misses the strangers on the trains he used to subsidize single-handed. "But then, a train can't veer off the track," he says. "I love the small country towns and the cafes. It's fun going to the Mexican restaurant in Van Horn, Texas. The guy's wife is the cook." Showing why he usually avoids fancy restaurants, Madden surveys the menu at one, declares, "Nothing here looks like food...
...idea of a railroad as small as the Denver & Rio Grande Western (2,500 miles of track) trying to swallow one as big as the Southern Pacific (13,000 miles) conjures up memories of the Little Engine That Could. Yet the Rio Grande has emerged as the front runner in a heated competition to acquire Southern Pacific...
RADAR. Powerful ground-based radar stations can track objects the size of basketballs from up to 2,000 miles away. The Cobra Dane station in Alaska monitors missiles launched from the Soviet mainland, while Pave Paws radar systems from California to Cape Cod watch for sea-launched warheads. The new Lacrosse satellite will carry lightweight radar systems that can penetrate heavy cloud layers and monitor Soviet ground activity at night...
...BEST TRACK RECORDS Racing toward the 1988 Olympics, Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson and American Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee dazzled at the Rome world track-and-field championships by winning their events. After 122 consecutive victories, U.S. Superstar Edwin Moses lost in the 400-meter hurdles...
...chief executive who spearheaded the company's American marketing drive, Peter Schutz, 57, has been pushed out of the firm by the Porsche family. His replacement, former Deputy Chairman Heinz Branitzki, 58, is expected to maintain the new austerity until Porsche gets back on the fast track...