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...Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging cavern, dim and vast, that dribbles dainty stalactites of iron filigree: a world like Kafka's world, a dead world waiting for the wrecker's ball...
...this store, as well, as at toystores in Cambridge, is a two-and a-half-foot item called Big Bruiser. Jordan Marsh had sold more than 100 in the last hour; seven were on the checkout counter at any particular moment. Big Bruiser is a battery-powered wrecker truck. It wrecks things...
...Aroused traditionalists are now battling to save the grand old bulk of Pennsylvania Station, which is scheduled for demolition to make way for two office buildings and a mammoth sports arena. Carnegie Hall was saved, but the old Ritz-Carlton and Brevoort Hotels have fallen to progress and the wrecker's ball...
...suggest the right man for the tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable seventh in the pentathlon at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. As McCone claimed, he had all the credentials for the nuclear...
...group that still remembers: a fiercely dedicated underground called the American Association of Theatre Organ Enthusiasts. Like the electric-trolley buffs and the antique-auto fanciers, the Enthusiasts are a diehard coterie, with a single-minded mission: to save those mighty relics of the recent past from the wrecker's hammer...