Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Folks, this is Pearl," boomed the familiar voice after Amtrak's Chicago-to-New York train collided last week in the middle of the night with a stalled truck and derailed near Mansfield, Ohio. The unofficial conductor was Pearl Bailey, 67, traveling to Manhattan to chair the opening of the 1985 Christmas Seal ceremonies. Talking through a loudspeaker, the veteran singer soothed jangled nerves among the 425 passengers. After two more days of traveling, Bailey hit a traffic jam outside New York City. Christmas Seal officials who had spotted Dolly Parton, 39, having lunch asked her to stand...
Usually, each weekend, members of this two-year old organization drive 30 miles out of Boston to Mansfield, where they rent single-engine, two-seater Cessna 152 airplanes for $30 an hour from Powell Aviation. According to club Co-President Javier F. Arango '85, he and the other Certified Flight Instructors (CFIs) in the club fly for recreation and also provide one-and-a-half hour lessons for less experienced flyers...
Once students pass Ground School, Russell and Arango take them to Mansfield and give them the hands-on training, Russell says, "It's very satisfying to see students at the end of two days having achieved competency with whatever brief glance of the subject they...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill asked Mike Mansfield, the former Senate majority leader now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, to deliver a blunt message to the Japanese: "They better make some concessions or they're in trouble." Some legislators grew positively bellicose. "We are in a war," declared Democratic Congressman Beryl Anthony of Arkansas. "After this passes we're going to have to load the gun and put some real bullets in it." Editorialized the New York Times: "The Japan-bashers are on the march...
...Mansfield adds that music from the 1930s and 1940s is most suitable for a close-harmony singing group. "Anything that relies on a contemporary sort of drum beat sound is heavily synthesized and doesn't work well...