Word: railroads
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...specific references in Lucy in the Sky. They are: "boats," "river," "flowers overhead," "a girl with sun in her eyes," "bridge," "fountain," "rocking horse people," "newspapers and taxis," "train," and "train station." The song itself is a description of meeting a girl. In London there is a footbridge with railroad tracks across the Thames which runs between Charing Cross and Waterloo stations called the Hungerford footbridge. On the Charing Cross side there is a dock. To one side are the Victoria Embankment Gardens, to the other the South Bank Gardens. These Gardens are full of flowers, and also serve...
...otherwise most serenely sunny cities, Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience of his students. Some of the outsiders shed their uniforms (ties and suits), strolled the streets on the wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other, and whiffed the foul breath of penury. Nine businessmen rode with cops as they checked vagrants in "the Deuce," a neighborhood of filthy flophouses. Some men mingled with drunks along the downtown Tenderloin skid row. Several housewives spent a day just sitting...
...intense that single holidays regularly rack up the highest highway accident rate of the year. One typical survey showed that a month with a three-day weekend, compared with a month without one, produced a 19% increase in business for an airline and a railroad, a 16% increase for a resort hotel...
Confession Recanted. Misapprehended or not, the major facts of the case remain undisputed. Little Janice May was found bloodied and fatally beaten along the railroad tracks outside of Canton in November 1955. Miller was arrested two days later, kept incommunicado for 52 hours and "persuaded" to confess after police told him that one of his pubic hairs was found in the victim's vagina. Miller later recanted the confession, and the hair, which was not his, was never introduced as evidence...
Some 300,000 British railroad workers last week went on slowdown. They not only refused all overtime work but zealously began conforming with all the rigmarole of the 240 regulations in the nationalized British Railways rule book. Guards elaborately checked rail-car doors and couplings, meticulously counted the contents of first-aid kits in locomotives. Engineers took 25-minute tea breaks, stopping many trains on the tracks between stations. Timetables all but vanished in the resulting confusion, and for several days about half the country's passenger trains were delayed or canceled...