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...screamed. Walker tugged desperately to free himself. As the train picked up speed, he walked, trotted, then sprinted to keep up. Stumbling, sliding, frantically pulling to free his arm, Walker was dragged to the end of the platform and slammed into a metal rail. As the train entered the tunnel, he was battered repeatedly against the concrete wall along the tracks. When a passenger finally pulled the emergency brake cord, Walker was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Death in the City | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Paul Bunyan, who used a pine tree for a comb and once hitched his blue ox, Babe, to the foot of a river and hauled it into an adjoining prairie, would have been proud to claim credit for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Bridge of Size | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

When the bridge-tunnel opened last week, its creators could safely boast that it was a wonder of the world. Its 17.6 miles made it the longest bridge-tunnel in the world, and, considering the time it saved, the $4 charge for car and driver seemed reasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Bridge of Size | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...long process of producing this kind of major story tends to leak out, and other publications rush to get into the act. But we have full confidence in the reader's ability to differentiate between a finished design and the ones that ran into trouble in the wind tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 17, 1964 | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

About all it takes to start a new magazine these days is an idea, a bank roll, and the kind of tunnel vision that sees nothing ahead but success. Some of the latest newcomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: The Agonies of Infancy | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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