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...Boston & Maine, the Delaware & Hudson, the Reading and the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Both prospering, the roads aim not only at giving the East two competitively balanced giant rail networks (each serving precisely 115 cities of more than 50,000 population) but also at rescuing from possible oblivion the four faltering, largely commuter lines (only the Delaware & Hudson is currently profitable). Says Tuohy: "We concluded that a merger that would take care of the indigent railroads would be most constructive...
...citizens who have become alarmed in recent weeks by the sight of fire begetting fire. Let these words be a reminder. The step from one degree of violence to the next is imperceptibly taken, and cannot be taken back. The end point of these little steps is horror and oblivion . . . Wars have a way of getting out of hand...
Your Cheatin' Heart, like many another mediocre film biography, threatens a legend with oblivion. Based on the life of Singer Hank Williams, Heart throbs to the proper words and music but misses the chaotic inner rhythm of a man who rose from boyhood poverty in Alabama to become the idolized author of such country-and-western hits as Jambalaya, Cold, Cold Heart, and the movie's title tune. Williams lived hard, worked hard and drank hard until the January day in 1953 when he leaned back in his white Cadillac and died of a heart attack...
Hitler's orders were blunt: if Paris could not be defended against the onrushing Allied armies, it was to be destroyed. The bridges of the Seine, Notre Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, even the Eiffel Tower, were to be blasted to oblivion. The conquerors were to find that, in its dying gasp, the Thousand-Year Reich had leveled a thousand years of Western history's most treasured monuments, leaving Paris, in Hitler's words, "nothing but a blackened field of ruins...
...doubt the heady spirit of Dr. Chafetz' book will be misrepresented and abused. But he puts himself squarely on record: "The person who drinks to get drunk is a fool and probably does not enjoy liquor anyway. He likely drinks for oblivion, with alcohol only the means to attain it." The civilized drinker stops far short of drunken oblivion...