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...trains were both functional and elegant. In other countries railroads still offer an unbeatable combination of comfort, safety and reliability. France's crack expresses, like the Mistral, provide sumptuous meals, barbershops, bookstores, boutiques and business offices, all at speeds of up to 125 m.p.h. Japan's famed "bullet" trains, whooshing along on cushioned roadbeds, treat the passenger with geisha-like solicitude. When the English Channel tunnel is completed, le chemin de fer will whisk travelers from London to Paris in 2½ hours...
...sweaty Rumanian card cheat at the baccarat tables of Monte Carlo. After that, the jobs got more difficult. In 1940, for example, he killed a Japanese code breaker in New York by shooting him through a hole made earlier hi a thick window by his part ner's bullet...
...NPRA that had performed the operations of counting and locking-in every night refused to execute them after receiving the officers' memo. Early in the morning, the guards in the bullet-proof booth which controls the cell blocks of the prison locked the steel doors separating minimum from maximum security and announced that the state police were coming. Prisoners are afraid of state police because the "staties" have a reputation for making them run gauntlets and performing other brutalities after they quell a riot. The ensuing riot was the result of the prisoners' efforts to get back to their cells...
...land. It thus became every child's territory. An ominous waltz introduced I Love a Mystery, featuring Jack, Doc and Reggie, proprietors of the A-1 Detective Agency-"No job too tough, no mystery too baffling." Superman was brought on with the sound of the bullet he could outspeed and of the locomotive he could overpower. Terry and the Pirates, Buck Rogers and Little Orphan Annie were liberated from the frozen postures of the comic strip. Captain Midnight; Tom Mix; Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, among others, became the aural equivalents of the dime novel and the magazine...
Confidently, disparagingly, she sketches the obvious alternatives. Should one perpetuate oneself at the tube end of "life-supporting" devices? Obscene. Should one rock out one's days (at $50 per) on the porch of a nursing home? "I'd rather put a bullet through my head...