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...rising steadily. That chilling statistic is only one sign of Argentina's turmoil. Late last week two members of one of Argentina's richest families, Juan and Jorge Born, were kidnaped by left-wing guerrillas in the Buenos Aires suburb of La Lucila while a trainload of commuters looked on in horror...
...trainload of 772 Yale students will be arriving in Boston around noon today, replete with 200 gallons of mixed drinks inside them and hopes for the Ivy championship riding high. The scene is one that occurs in Cambridge every two years, though recently it has been heacaches and disappointment and not the Ivy trophy that has accompanied the riders back to New Haven...
...finds that the city's psyche took form in the 1880s, when the first waves of midwestern farmers arrived by the trainload. What they sought in L.A. was not urbanity but a continuation of their dispersed, self-reliant way of life. Thus, Banham says, "Los Angeles is the Middle West raised to the flashpoint, the authoritarian dogmas of the Bible Belt and the perennial revolt against them colliding at critical mass under the palm trees. Out of it comes a cultural situation where only the extreme is normal." To reinforce that pattern, Hollywood bloomed in the 1920s, adding...
Modular housing may help to free the fragmented building industry from its dependence on localized and often inefficient production methods. Stirling Homex Corp., largest of the modular builders, last month moved an entire trainload of $20,000 town houses 950 miles from its plant in Avon, N.Y., to Corinth, Miss. Each house was built and shipped in four sections, averaging 12 ft. by 24 ft.; then the modular units were swung by crane onto foundations and were made ready for occupancy on the same day that they arrived...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). The Train (1965). Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance leader who tries to keep a trainload of art treasures from being shipped to Germany...