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...fleet, some of them superannuated hulks in need of replacement. Amtrak executives are still choosing a design for new cars; most will not be in service before 1976. Until then, passengers on many runs face equipment breakdowns and a decline in comfort. Punctuality is also on the wane; the Metroliner's on-time percentage dropped to 63% last year from 76% in 1972, and some trains-including the St. Louis-Washington, D.C., and Chicago-New Orleans runs-went for months last year without ever arriving on time. Says Harold L. Graham, Amtrak vice president for marketing: "Frankly, there will...
...history of the manuscript of Gulag is nearly as tragic as its subject matter. Although Solzhenitsyn had begun researching the book in 1958, he did not start writing it until 1964, just as official Soviet acceptance of his works had be gun to wane. The 1962 publication in Russia of One Day, by Premier Nikita Khrushchev's order, had prompted hundreds of former prisoners to write to Solzhenitsyn, detailing their own experiences. Deeply moved, Solzhenitsyn shut himself up in a ramshackle dacha to work. He completed Gulag four years later. Solzhenitsyn was then unwilling to risk endangering his correspondents...
Perhaps in Josiah Quincy's day the country could afford to do that. But not now. Freedom is on the wane in this country and repression is on the rise all over the world. We can no longer sit back and swap stories about the good old revolution. We have to start worrying about the present. On this anniversary we must recognize that the patriots of Boston acted wisely in overthrowing their oppressors and the time is come to express our confidence in what our forefathers did by doing it ourselves...
Among the phenomena of the 1950s was the rise of the violent urban gangs with their freewheeling, sometimes lethal "rumbles" in protection of their "turf." By the mid-'60s, gangs seemed to be on the wane, their vital energies either drawn into the protest movements of that era or sapped by the burgeoning drug culture...
...flats, and the city earmarked another 10,000 acres of adjacent marshlands for new factories. By banning any further municipal intrusion into the marshes-including proposed landfill projects in Mestre-the new law will severely limit the growth of both cities. Indeed, Marghera's importance is bound to wane-probably with adverse economic effect on Venice. "If you take away the industrial sector," warns Critic Vladimiro Dorigo, "it means killing the whole place...