Word: freights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right stretch endless blocks of red-brick rowhouses, each indistinguishable from the next. Old Chevrolets and new Mustangs are parked along the grim treeless streets. Each house has a small grass backyard. The train passes through tracts of brick warehouses and lots of empty freight trucks. The towering buildings of downtown Baltimore fade in the distance. Soon the metal scrapyards and old industrial offices thin out, and pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman...
From Decatur, Ala., to Windsor, Ont., tornado winds chewed up homes and businesses, sent cars, buses and even freight trains spinning aloft, toppled massive power line towers and wiped out whole families. More than 60 twisters flickered out of the sky over an eleven-state area, claiming more than 300 lives and destroying property worth nearly $400 million. It was the most devastating salvo of tornadoes to hit the U.S. since 1925, when 689 were killed. President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee disaster areas. Vice President Ford, after viewing devastated portions of Ohio from...
...congressional race in staunchly Republican Cincinnati. Warns G.O.P. Congressman William F. Scherle of Iowa: "If this is a pattern, then there aren't many Republicans who can survive." Adds a prominent Midwestern Republican Governor: "There's light at the end of the tunnel-it's a freight train heading right...
...Amtrak president this year. NARP, a Washington, D.C., group that lobbied for the creation of Amtrak, accuses the line's executives of kowtowing to the private railroads that allow Amtrak to use their tracks. NARP charges that Amtrak trains were illegally delayed 2,398 times by private-line freight trains last November and December. "Amtrak is both fantastic and terrible," says NARP Chairman Anthony Haswell. "In terms of re-creating a public enthusiasm to ride trams, it has been fantastically successful. But it has failed to provide a level of service that is even remotely acceptable...
ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...