Word: amtrak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale and Penn made the journey aboard an Amtrak, on which the teams were locked in a train car the entire trip. As one of the Eli swimmers asked, "Do you know what that's like when you have to go to the bathroom?" And Dartmouth? The Big Green bused southward on the weekend the annual Winter Carnival was being staged in Hanover, an event made even more depressing when, in the words of coach Susan Lutkus, "It took us as long to get from the bus station to the pool as it had from Hanover to Boston." Make that...
...rifles. An armored supply column got lost, found itself deep in enemy territory. Suddenly, from all sides of the column came mortar and heavy-artillery fire. Three shells hit the leading tank, and when its driver tried to squeeze out an escape hatch, he was riddled with bullets. Three amtraks backed into a deep paddy and bogged down, a fourth was knocked out when a V.C. dropped a grenade down its hatch. "O.K., men, we're marines, let's do the job," shouted one young corporal, but as he climbed out of his amtrak to lead a counterattack...