Word: rail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...missiles, have been insisting on the right to develop the MX, a new, multiwarhead mobile weapon. One early plan was to mount the new missiles on railroad tracks in covered trenches so that the Russians could never know precisely where they were. But it was found that such a rail system might itself be penetrated. Another possibility is being promoted by the Defense Department. It is a kind of shell game called MAP (multiple aiming points). For each of 200 Minuteman ICBMS there would be not one underground silo but 20, of which 19 would be empty. The 200 missiles...
...Romanenko took this daring plunge remains unknown. "Perhaps he got 'space rapture' or something," speculates a U.S. space official. In any case, Grechko reacted quickly. Making his way hand over hand along Salyut's rail, he managed to grab the end of Romanenko's safety line just in time. By then his comrade had floated about four meters (13 ft.) from Salyut. A few seconds later, Romanenko would have been beyond reach of his comrade's helping hand, drifting hopelessly in space...
There was, of course, much blood. First a man, lying by the rail line, still alive, crying, with his leg severed at the shin and the shinbone sticking out like a white cornstalk. He must have fallen under the wheels of the train. Then another man, still alive, his hip mangled and bloody. But the blood was not my chief distress; it was my inability to make any sense of what I was seeing. In a famine, where no one kills but nature, there are no marks on the body when people die; nature itself is the enemy-and only...
...decrees that since 1945 has controlled the price of almost all manufactured goods, from trucks to biscuits. This bombshell, more over, is hitting as the economy is still absorbing the impact of another recent Barre move: increases of up to 20% in the prices of natural gas, electricity, rail tickets and other government-supplied services. The cost of mailing a letter inside France went up from 22? to 26?, and this week premium gasoline will rise 10.7%, to $2.20 per gal. By charging more for services, Barre hopes to shrink the government's inflationary $4.3 billion budget deficit...
...Rome costs only $53, plus $7.82 for a couchette berth, plus $13 for cooked-aboard dinner. Every Western European country has offices in the U.S. where the tourist can buy lower-price tickets in advance. Example: for only $115, the American who plans to visit Germany can buy a rail pass good for 16 days of unlimited travel...