Word: boxcar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third episode, the longest and most variously appealing of the three, the hero hitches a ride on a train. At a whistle stop, a pretty young girl (Shanna Prokhorenko) climbs into his boxcar. The train starts. "Mamma! " she screams, when she sees the hero. "M aaamaaaaa!" Nervously they make friends. He offers her a bite of salt pork. "Just a nibble," she says shyly. She wolfs the whole pound -raw. After half an hour boy and girl are so innocently and unleninistically in love that only a mad dog of a capitalist could fail to be in love with them...
...XVII, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, swung into polar orbit, logged 1,000,000 miles in 31 turns around the earth, then, on signal popped its instrument capsule over the Pacific. As if that triumph of precision were not enough, an Air Force C-119 flying boxcar, one of nine planes covering a 12,500-sq.-mi. "ballpark" near Honolulu, snagged the parachuting capsule...
...that went out on strike. Said G.E. Chief Negotiator Philip D. Moore: "Carey is looking for one concession which he can represent as a great victory that he wrung out of the company. He is a master at taking the skin from a gnat and stretching it over a boxcar. Well, he's not going to get a concession from...
...Southern Pacific. The family ended up in the quiet town of Kingsburg (pop. 1,500), 20 miles south of Fresno in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. For a year, with nothing but a ragged curtain as a dividing "wall," the seven Johnsons made their home in a boxcar on a siding near a cannery...
...time they were befriended by Edward Fishel, owner of a small animal-feed processing plant, who hired Rafer's father as a handyman, his mother as a domestic, moved the family out of the boxcar and into a small house. Things went fine until the town's police chief told the Fishels to fire the Johnsons, then threatened Mrs. Johnson herself: "I don't want to see the sun set on any niggers in this town." The Fishels stood their ground, the Johnsons ignored the threats, and nothing further happened. The police chief later left...