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...frustrated, having failed to write a Great American Novel, a ghost he pursued all his life. He wanted to write a significant novel to legitimize his writing career, much as he always wanted to wear a British derby and "learn to shave with a straight razor on a moving railroad train" to fulfill his ideas of adulthood...
Along the bumpy roads leading from the Iraqi border to Khorramshahr, trees and broken telephone poles are strewn alongside the wreckage of burnt vehicles. At Khorramshahr's gutted railroad station, Iraqi soldiers use wall portraits of Ayatullah Khomeini for target practice. At the huge port sprawling along the Shatt al Arab, stacks of mammoth loading containers, stripped of their spoils by Iraqi invaders, are tangled with rusted steel pipes and charred, broken cranes. In makeshift barracks built under pylons, a few off-duty soldiers nap or thumb through magazines to pass the idle time...
After voting with Rosalynn, Carter drove over to the railroad depot, the initial headquarters for his 1976 campaign, to greet an attentive crowd of 100 residents and 200 reporters. Suddenly, for the first time in public, he started to betray what he knew-that he was going to lose. While his aides dug their shoes into the red clay and stared at the ground, Carter gave a rambling talk for ten minutes about the accomplishments of his Administration. "I've tried to honor your commitment," he said at the end. "In the process, I've tried . . . " His voice...
...Dewey's opponent has little of the governor's efficient manner. Under great tension, Mr. Truman has frequently made serious errors, such as his angry request to Congress for the power to draft striking railroad workers. His administration has not been smooth. But what Mr. Truman stands for in the way of domestic institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake...
...sandstone of adjoining buildings has actually begun to flake. The chief culprits are believed to be coal dust and sulfur dioxide fumes; these help create sulfuric acid that attacks the calcium carbonate of the marble. Most of the pollution comes from two coal-fired power plants, a large railroad switching yard and myriad small coal-burning foundries. Still more pollution may be in the offing from a new oil refinery in nearby Mathura...