Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country has plenty of less famous eccentrics too. Terrified of driving, a Kansas scion solves the problem by packing his Rolls-Royce aboard a railroad flatcar, sitting behind the wheel and riding wherever he pleases. An Oregon sportswriter is so hung up on streetcars that he roams the U.S. to find and ride them. An Arkansas housewife fills her house with flocks of birds that swirl through the rooms; she spends $200 a month to feed them-not to mention the cleaning bills. For ten years, a 52-year-old man named Clint Wescott camped in a weed-choked field...
...hours after two freight trains sideswiped, releasing flammable and poisonous liquids that resulted in a ten-hour fire and a huge explosion. The fire destroyed a cannery-Dunreith's major industry-and seven houses; cyanide pollution of the water persisted for several months. The wreck, which cost the railroad $ 1,000,000, was caused by a defective rail that would have cost $50 to repair...
...Last week the Commerce Department announced a $3.8 million loan for development of a 45-acre industrial park in the overwhelmingly black area, where unemployment is running up to 20% (v. 3.3% for the nation as a whole). On a scarred parcel of land now occupied by a railroad siding, some ramshackle houses and several squalid junk yards, 2,400 people may eventually be at work...
...railroads when they can net 15% in other industries. If this trend continues, some authorities fear that it will open the way for ultimate railroad nationalization in order to keep enough trains running to serve the public...
...lopped off by a devious ax murderer-or murderers. On the squash court of New York's Eli Club, Professor Bertram Langsam loses his head and thumb. Ferdinand Fields, an Episcopal rector partial to horror flicks, is decapitated in the men's room of a Long Island railroad train by a Peruvian sun priestess turned tramp. Whittaker Duchamp, bogus play producer, is more fortunate: he only loses an ear. The bloody trail is also strewn with a vengeful rabbi, scheming and pathetic women, a semi-transvestite, and other odd characters who are for the most part linked...