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...Pennsylvania's New York division retorted with the callous disavowal of responsibility that commuters had learned to expect from their railroads: "We never intended to put a signal light there at all. We still don't intend to install signal lights at either end of the detour because it's still a temporary project. The railroad makes many . . . changes without notifying the ICC . . . After all, it's our own property...
...blown the only bridge across a reservoir. With the bridge gone, the 20,000 men of the 1st Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division last week apparently had no choice but to abandon their vehicles, take out on foot and make a 20-mile detour through enemy-infested hills...
...they been members of any other army the marines and soldiers would have made the detour and perhaps been annihilated in the process. As it was, even before the crucial crossing was reached, eight spans of a 16-ton bridge had been parachuted down out of the sky to the U.S. troops seemingly isolated in the midst of the enemy. Eight C-119s of Major General William H. Tunner's Combat Cargo Command, each hauling a single span, had carried out the world's first airdrop of a bridge. The retreating column was free to move ahead, vehicles...
Organized labor, which likes to say it is on the march, hit a wide detour at the polls. At least 25 Congressmen who had generally voted in a way that labor approved lost their jobs; of eleven Senators marked by Big Labor for defeat, only one (Missouri's Donnell) went down...
Inasmuch as the only things a civilization is ever remembered by ... are the artistic (materialistically worthless) doings of a small group, I feel it is particularly fitting that a realistic, and if you will a materialistic, organization such as TIME should take a short detour from its news reporting to laud Robert Frost for his contribution to future generations. You have done a fine...