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LAST WEEK's leak of toxic gas in Somerville after a railroad crash did more than irritate eyes--it set to rest the misguided notion that it is somehow possible to evacuate an urban area quickly in an unanticipated emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clouds by Any Other Name | 4/8/1980 | See Source »

...Boston and Maine locomotive crashed into a tank car on a railroad siding in the Somerville train yard at 9 a.m. yesterday, cutting a large gash in the side of the 13,000 gallon tank and sending the liquid streaming...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...railroad tank car rupture in Somerville sent a huge white cloud of toxic gas drifting over parts of that city, Cambridge and Boston yesterday, forcing thousands to flee their homes and jobs, and sending 100 victims to local hospitals. local hospitals...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...Remington is middleaged, but one can sniff gunpowder in his temperament. Remington (played with granitic force by Michael Kevin) begins on an elegiac note. He recalls sitting beside a wintry campfire and hearing a gnarled veteran of the receding frontier say: "In a few years, the railroad will come all along the Yellowstone ... the wild riders and the vacant lands are about to vanish forever " But for a boy of 19, there were plenty of adventures left. In a yeasty anecdotal vein, Remington tells tales of canoeing shallow rivers and being spilled into the foaming rapids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Crop of Kentucky Foals | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

Candidates who try to avoid issues are an ancient blight on the American political landscape; but only recently have they perfected the sleight-of-hand by which silence becomes an unbeatable advantage. In 1976 Jimmy Carter stepped into a closed railroad car, and rode it straight to the White House; no one caught a glimpse of the man anywhere along the way. Other candidates are trying to take that same ride today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Roaring Silence | 2/26/1980 | See Source »

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