Word: loco
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...flowering wild hops. Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes. Over one stretch known as "the long straight," the track runs dead ahead for 297 miles, the longest straightway railroad in the world. There was a "loco" driver at Cook named Kevin Smith who, they say, did not go round a bend for five years...
...loco driver boarding at Cook is Gary Carn He and his fireman, Peter Read, carry four days' provisions in a metal tucker box, which they keep in the locomotive cab. Carn stares down the twin ribbons of steel at a sea of green saltbush that reaches out in every direction to the circular horizon. No houses, no trees; only telephone poles rushing by at 60 m.p.h. interrupt his view. "We used to stop and let the passengers pick wildflowers," Carn says. "There are 7,000 different kinds...
...gave 18-year-olds the right to vote, almost half of the states in the nation now consider 18 rather than 21 the age of adulthood. This includes almost all college undergraduates, and the redefinition of the legal age virtually dooms the tradition of colleges acting in loco parentis. To survey the future changes in campus life, the Council of Student Personnel Associations in Higher Education commissioned a study by University of Georgia Education Professor D. Parker Young. Some of Young's observations on the social implications of adulthood...
William D. Geer, principal of Newton South High School, said yesterday that the ruling would not apply to the school because almost all the students are under 18 and the school acts "in loco parentis...
...only thing Bok seems sure of is his desire to have the Masters draw up "some thought-out policy" on cohabitation at Harvard, so that he can use it to ward off letters from parents who are worried that he is not acting in loco well enough...