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...daily operation. In 1983, TGV track will extend to Marseille, a 4 hr. 50 min. ride that will trim two hours off the present schedule. Eventually Le Train will run west to Rennes and Nantes and perhaps one day north to Brussels and London, if a channel tunnel is built...
...looks, the TGV outdazzles even Japan's famed Shinkansen, the 100-m.p.h. bullet trains. Each 660-ft.-long train is a single unit of eight cars with an engine at both ends; there is no break between cars. The aerodynamic shape of the TGV was developed through wind-tunnel tests. The trains are powered electrically from overhead and are about 18 in. lower than conventional rolling stock. Each train has a capacity of 386 passengers, 111 in first class, 275 in second...
...1940s, when "regional" writers were charting new corners of the American subconscious and film makers like Frank Borzage and Clarence Brown were spring-cleaning old work clothes and folkways. If there is an intrusive touch of modernism, it comes from Shepard, the playwright whose Buried Child and The West tunnel into the dreams of the rural working class, and then explode them. As the haunted "raggedy man," Shepard lurks at the edges of the film's life, giving it texture and menace and meaning. But Spacek is the center. Until now a worldly child-woman, with the most infectious...
...report also blasts previous similar studies for "tunnel vision." Previous works, like the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, focused only on specific nuclear accidents, and they also produced excessively costly recommendations, the study says...
...knows how much money has so far flowed out of U.S. banks and into Canadian ones, but traffic in recent months around the tunnel connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ont, suggests that the amount is large. Says one Windsor bank manager: "We've had a tremendous surge in funds from across the river Nor is the march of dollars limited to border towns. Bank branches in Toronto and Montreal are getting deposits by mail from people throughout...