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...Grande Zephyr, the last privately operated long-haul passenger service in the Lower 48 states, was about to be shut down. Its operator, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, said the train was losing $3 million a year. The new operator would be the National Railroad Passenger Corp., the Government-subsidized organization known as Amtrak. The old cars with their rump-sprung seats would be replaced with Amtrak's firm-chaired, bullet ride to modernity. The cuisine of the dining car, a draw for serious trenchermen, would be replaced with Amtrak food, no adjective necessary...
...plague of crickets carpeted its main street, nothing much ever happens in Coalinga, Calif, (pop. 7,271). Located in the fertile San Joaquin Valley, it is a sleepy little community whose most notable claim to fame is its unusual name, a garbled version of its early designation as a railroad's "Coaling Station A." Last week Coalinga (pronounced Clinga) was jolted out of its torpor, adding a puzzling footnote to California's seismic history...
McCloy played a key role in the decision not to bomb Auschwitz or the railroad tracks leading to the camp where millions of Jews were murdered. Despite McCloy's assertion that President Roosevelt made the decision not to bomb, David Wyman, a leading expert on the Holocaust, has found "do documentary evidence that the bombing decision ever came to Roosevelt...
McCloy, a graduate of Harvard Law School, left his New York Law firm in 1941 to become assistant secretary of war under Roosevelt. As Allied forces began to move across Europe in 1944, Jewish leaders lobbied the War Department to bomb the railroad tracks leading to the Auschwitz concentration camp and the camp itself--a move that they believed would hamper the Nazi atrocities. It was to McCloy that Jewish leaders were told to address their petitions; McCloy answered that the bombing was not feasible...
...post-war German-American relations than John J. McCloy to commemorate with a scholarship program. If, as Jewish and Asian-American student groups--and such magazines as The New Republic--maintain, he was responsible for the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, the refusal to bomb the railroad tracks leading to German concentration camps, and the pardoning of Nazi war criminals' after the war, then McCloy is guilty of gross injustices. If, as the majority editorial argues, he was merely carrying out Roosevelt's orders, then McCloy was no more than an administrator and a bureaucrat. Even this...