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The SS United States, a record-breaking 1950s ocean liner, may soon sail from Philadelphia to the Gulf. NPR explored this ...

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By Geoffrey Wheatcroft Rather less than six decades ago, Bernard Levin wrote a widely read ... living in the second half of the 20th century, without any religious faith apart from a lingering ...

The SS United States, a record-breaking 1950s ocean liner, may soon sail from Philadelphia to the Gulf. NPR explored this ...