Word: freights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quayle campaign rented the 22-year-old motor coach in 1988 and 1992. The bus itself is on the tatty side ("It has 2.4 million miles on it," boasts Commander Johnny), but Forbes doesn't seem to notice. When the bus halts outside Atlantic, Iowa, to let an endless freight train snake past, Forbes looks not at the parade of colorful boxcars but only at his watch. The atmosphere inside is more like a hushed corporate boardroom than a vehicle for Steve's Excellent Adventure. Muted conversation between the few staffers--no music, no mess, no jokes. Journalists are loaded...
...open seats in this week's school-board election, the company's contract will probably be terminated altogether. Still, EAI chairman and CEO John Golle downplays the trouble. "The press is making this out as Waterloo," he says. "I don't think so at all. School reform is a freight train moving down the track...
...Beast: A Reckoning with Depression (Putnam; 286 pages; $23.95), Tracy Thompson, a reporter for the Washington Post, provides a harrowing chronicle of her battle against the demon she calls "a psychic freight train of roaring despair." Thompson is uncommonly thoughtful on many levels--from her fearful childhood in a Southern fundamentalist family, to her confused entanglement with a harshly supportive man, to her hospitalization in a mental ward and her sunlit rescue by Prozac. Thompson's reporter's eye is unsparing, and she writes with tough grace. About one of her more hopeful moments: "Life did not get easier...
NEIL YOUNG will never have trouble finding accessories for his Lionel O-gauge freight set again. The toy-train enthusiast (and sometime rock star) is part of a consortium headed by former Paramount chairman Martin S. Davis that just bought the Lionel Trains company. Young, who has two sons with cerebral palsy, has been working with former owner Richard Kughn on developing remote controls that make it easier for handicapped people to use model trains. The new company will continue this work...
Japanese police today arrested the security chief of thecultsuspected inlast month's nerve gas attackon the Tokyo subway system that killed 11 people. Tomomitsu Niimi, 31, was charged with kidnapping a 29-year-old woman who says he drugged her and kept her in a freight container for three months because she was trying to leave the Aum Shinrikyo cult. In a Moscow court yesterday, a teenager who once belonged to the cult said the sect had tested nerve gas on its Russian followers...