Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testily when the steward is unable to produce a corkscrew for the bottle of Moulin-á-Vent '76 they had brought to table. It turns out that the train does serve wine, but "it's all twist-top," the steward explains. Smoking is banned in the dining car. Both breakfast servings produce perfectly cooked eggs any-style with a choice of grits and cream gravy, sausage, bacon, hash, broiled ham and, as a post-Atlantan flourish, exemplary French toast. All food is cooked on big old stoves fired by Presto Logs...
Many of the Crescent personnel also are younger than they used to be. The Washington-to-Atlanta sleeping-car porter is amiable John Fox, a 29-year-old Bahamian. The chef who takes over in Atlanta confides that he is "25 years, six months and five days old." Not that the old guard has changed entirely. Grizzled Luther King, the black sleeping-car porter who replaces Fox in Atlanta, is a kindly, dignified gentleman, typical of the old Pullman employee. He has worked the rails since 1942, when he made $150 a month; now he makes a guaranteed...
...American Navy officer, code-named "Ed" by his Soviet contact, slowed his car on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway near Woodbridge. On the side of the road, at a prearranged spot, he nervously dropped an orange juice container stuffed with documents describing the U.S. Navy's top secret method of tracking enemy submarines...
Back in 1972, Motel Operator Angelo Asciolla of Lake Winnisquam, N.H., paid $5,200 for a new Olds Delta 88. After driving it all of 1,390 miles, he discovered that the car would move neither forward nor backward. As he later learned, the GM dealer had left the auto in water up to the floor boards before palming...
When Asciolla took the car back to his dealer and asked for a replacement, he was offered a new transmission. After he made several futile appeals to consumer groups the New Hampshire supreme court came to his aid, ruling the car a lemon. Last week, Asciolla finally received, free of charge, a new Olds Delta 88, list-priced at $7,863.40, and a $6,200 check from GM. He also had the old '72 Delta parked behind his motel-a lemon that had, after all, yielded some juice...