Word: deckers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windows started crashing down on top of me. The floor was gone, and people were screaming for help." Thus Cliff Retis, 23, described the horror of last week's commuter-train collision in Chicago in which 44 people were killed and 350 injured. A train of new double-decker cars overshot a flag-stop station four miles from the Illinois Central commuter terminal in the Loop and began backing up to the platform. Apparently a following train of heavy older cars was not properly warned. The lead coach of the second train slammed into the last coach...
...point may be irrelevant. Delderfield, an Englishman who died at 60 last January, qualified in publishing terms as a phenomenon, which by all accounts-and accountants-put him beyond criticism. He was a Victorian three-decker novelist born out of his time. After a middling career both as a provincial journalist and a London playwright, he settled down in the 1950s at the age of 44 to what he conceived as his true calling: "To project the English way of life in the tradition of Hardy and Galsworthy...
...within earshot," reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit last week. The city (pop. 2,100,000) is a dusty, sunbaked mélange of blue-domed mosques, dun-colored buildings and massive office complexes housing a growing government bureaucracy. Traffic jams are frequent as British-built double-decker buses, government Chevrolets and even donkeys all maneuver for the five bridges that span the Tigris. To break the jams, police assess fines as high as $320 merely for illegal parking on Saaddoun Street, the city's main thoroughfare...
...Edmund Muskie, the Polish Catholic from Maine. Or perhaps Hubert Humphrey, who dotes on organized labor. Maybe even George Wallace, the sometime Horatio of the hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls and pastries, Quirk told TIME Correspondent John Stacks...
Racism is pervasive in and around Southie. It is a simple faith, as simple as the patriotism in Cronin's bar or the bingo games at St. Augustine's. This is a blue-collar neighborhood, heavily Irish, made up of triple-decker wooden houses and smaller ones of brick. The district is only 1% black; Southie's 2,000 students include exactly one black, a West Indian girl who says she survives at the school "because I speak with a foreign accent." Students tell a story of some whites dangling a black youth out a third-floor...