Word: railways
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Changing place names was easy, but Russians were staggered by the problem of what to do with the hundreds of thousands of silvery Stalin statues, busts, romantic paintings, prints and touched-up photographs that were coming down from parks, museums, railway stations, airports, government buildings, hotels, factories and apartments. There had been nothing like it since the austere iconoclasts destroyed all the icons and shattered all the statues of the lusty 8th century Byzantine Empire.* Out in the satellites of Eastern Europe, stupefied Reds could not seem to make up their minds what to do about their years of Stalinolatry...
...William N. Deramus III, 45, former president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, takes over from his 73-year-old father as president of Kansas City Southern Railway. In his four years at the debt-racked Katy, hard-bitten "Young Bill" alienated local affection by reducing employment, skimping on maintenance. At K.C.S. he will find that Father Deramus has the line in such good shape that it earned $3,400,000 for 1961's first eight months...
...They're merely dreadful," his Weariness, who had been to the railway station to welcome the Royal travelers, murmured in a voice extinct with boredom...
...well-to-do railway building contractor, Heimito von Doderer was born and has lived most of his life in Vienna, is considered Austria's most eminent novelist. He was a prisoner of war in Russia in World War I, fought in Hitler's Luftwaffe in World War II. Of his ten books of fiction and five other works, The Demons, meticulously translated by Richard and Clara Winston, is the first to see English...
...power hitter: keen eyesight, quick wrists, magnificent coordination. His controlled, compact swing is one of baseball's prettiest sights. "There's no waste motion at all," marvels Yankee Batting Coach Wally Moses. Raised in North Dakota, the son of a mechanical supervisor for the Great Northern Railway, Maris was a phenomenal high school football player. No student ("Sports took up all my time; I couldn't keep my mind on books"), Maris turned down some half-dozen col lege scholarship offers to try out with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs. Impressed by his fluid swing...