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...days after Patrick B. McGinnis chided New Yorkers for "being satisfied to travel in the subways like pigs," homeward-bound commuters last week were packed like porkers into Grand Central Terminal (see cut), awaiting trains delayed more than two hours by a locomotive fire on McGinnis' New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road. The fire snarled 20 New Haven trains and 21 New York Central trains that use the same tracks into Grand Central. It was the latest and one of the longest New Haven delays since McGinnis won a heated proxy fight and took over the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Pigs & Pigs | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

KNOWN BUT TO GOD. As the former President (substituting at the annual Veterans' Day ceremonies for the homeward-bound President Eisenhower) turned and resumed his place, a soldier with a gleaming bugle sounded taps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Stillness at Arlington | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...when he will go to Washington, then on to his farm home at Gettysburg. At week's end, he had begun practicing on a two-step exercise stile in his room, preparing for the steps he would soon climb to board his plane, the Columbine-homeward bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homeward Bound | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...earnest Isaiah is a prophet without honor or glamour. Beaten and spit upon, the visionary nonetheless convinces a hard core of the faithful that Babylon will be overthrown and the Jews restored to their ancient homeland. At novel's end, the first of the Jews are on the homeward march. Occasionally moving in his hours of trial, Asch's man of God often seems less the eloquent, God-intoxicated psalm-singer of the great Biblical text ("Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion . . .") than a bearded positive thinker doling out pep talks to the dispirited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...King, my father, and papa makes his choice. Very simple, isn't it?" The people found it so, and in the end they asked papa to make Sihanouk Premier. Next morning they picked up their straw bedding from the floor of the Silver Pagoda and trudged homeward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Papa's Choice | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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