Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cultivating his backyard (with an occasional foray into Pennsylvania), Schaus has created an anomaly in big-time college basketball: a home-grown team. North Carolina combs the New York subway circuit for its players, and Kansas stretched out to Philadelphia for Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. But Schaus finds his stars in towns like East Bank (pop. 1,500) and Shinnston (pop. 2,793). As a result, the state rightly looks on the team as its own, not a high-priced import, follows its games with chauvinistic zeal...
...York subway strike and the ensuing controversy about the microphones the Transit Authority had placed in the offices of the Motormen's Benevolent Association has always been an edifying spectacle. The latest development is a statement which ought to endure as a classic in the field of civil liberties...
...gopak, the hayseed at whom Beria sneered years ago as "our beloved chicken statesman," "our potato politician." When Stalin put Nikita in charge of the Moscow party back in the '30s, Khrushchev used to don navvies' rough clothes, crawl down to visit the sandhogs tunneling out the new subway, take a hand with a pneumatic drill, and talk with the lads in the unprintable language for which, even in the Kremlin, he is famous. The palace courtiers dubbed him "Comrade Lavatory Lover" because Nikita not only insisted on equipping the Moscow metro with the world's best subway toilets...
...once). The revue keeps up a two-beat pace with fast blackouts. Most lyrics are aimed at Manhattan's theater set and suburbia's bar-car sophisticates, but they are not necessarily too esoteric for the occasional Sixth Avenue Sindbad who "falls downstairs looking for the subway." Sample...
Looking to the future, Dreyfus has doubled Renault's research budget and staff. Of his 60,580 workers, 802 are research engineers, half of them busy with pure research. Renault is experimenting with a turbodiesel locomotive, and has already sold rattle-free, rubber-tired subway cars to the Paris Metro. Says President Dreyfus: "We must be regarded as something of a pilot plant that sets the pace for the rest of the nation's economy. For the past three years we have been able to raise wages by more than 12%, while holding the price of our finished...