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...faster schedule than the stop-and-go City of New Orleans Goodman described. (He wrote the song in 1970, just before Amtrak took over the line with plans to rename that route the Panama Limited after the old Pullman train. Goodman's popular lament for the train with the "disappearin'-railroad blues" persuaded Amtrak to rechristen it the City of New Orleans.) And our sleek new equipment was a far cry from the tattered luxury of its aging 1940s cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Lessons From The City Of New Orleans | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...Midas and Michael Milken put together. But finally J.R. has mellowed into a mood of valedictory twilight. Like the show he anchored, the aging Texan is again in fine form. He might have been speaking of Dallas when, in a recent episode, he mourned, "The world I know is disappearin' real fast." But it was left to his stalwart brother to put the series in perspective. "J.R.," Bobby said, "you and I have spent our entire lives tryin' to win Daddy's approval by fightin' with one another. Neither one of us givin' up until we were sure we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye To Gaud Almighty | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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