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...Harvard were to announce that it did not intend to give up the land and would fight in court if necessary, it might find itself with enough allies to break the project," Rod Vandivert, an environmental consultant for Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, said last year...
...trotting photographer was William Vandivert, taking a series of color pictures for this week's story on the modernization of U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS). Vandivert's previous color portfolios for TIME have included such varied pictorial reports as Abilene's Eisenhower Museum (TIME, April 5, 1954), Anderson Hospital in Houston (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954), automation in industry (TIME, March 19) and football at Michigan State University (TIME...
...this week's color story on railroading, Vandivert traveled for two months and some 23,000 miles up and down and across the U.S. To help him get his pictures, railroaders everywhere set up special timetables for their prized new rolling stock. Union Pacific blocked its main line 30 minutes at Green River, Wyo., while Vandivert photographed three different types of power plants used in mountain hauling. Southern Pacific trainmen, not to be outdone, tape-measured the 4,745-11. length of an 87-car piggyback freight train, laid out the same distance along California's San Luis...
...When we moved on to Kashgar the trip was out of this world. The governor gave us a car but we had to supply our own gasoline (it cost 45,000 Chinese dollars). We started off with a party of nine: myself and LIFE Photographer Bill Vandivert, a crack Chinese documentary film team, a driver, a mechanic and three gendarmes to guard us on the desert. Coming back we had to get a tenth into the car for the driver bought a Turki girl in Kashgar for $200 (rather pretty though unwashed) and perched her high on the topmost mound...
...allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert, Jim Shepley and Teddy White took over the mud-walled kitchen of their lodgings to cook their own really royal turkey dinner (25 pounds of it, at a cost of only $1 in American money...