Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four young Negroes, one swinging a meat cleaver, ranged through the cars, terrorizing passengers on a Brooklyn train. Finally, one yanked open the door of Motorman George Dauenheimer's cab, held the cleaver at his neck and snarled, "Are you black or white?" Dauenheimer said, "I'm white." The Negro shouted, "I'm just going to cut your head off." But when Dauenheimer stopped the train, the hoodlums jumped off. When they tried to break into a change booth, they were arrested and jailed by subway police...
During periods of darkness, he flicked on the tiny flashlights that were attached to the fingers of his gloves, directed the beams on his maps. He found he could urinate easily into the "motorman's pal," which was attached to the lining of his space suit. On his second orbit, he again ran into the field of luminous particles; he turned his capsule around at a 180° angle to see them better, but most of them were eventually lost in the glare...