Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days later, as a 140-car freight train rumbled by tiny Youngstown in Florida's panhandle, all five locomotives hurtled off the track, piling up 47 cars like jackstraws. From one ruptured tanker poured a cloud of deadly, yellowish-green chlorine gas. Engineer Ray Shores grabbed his portable short-wave radio and sprinted 75 yds. to a swamp, where he burrowed deep into the mud and called for help...
...railroads themselves are responsible for inspecting and maintaining track and equipment. Officials of the railroads involved in the latest derailments insisted that they had taken all possible precautions. Said Donald T. Martin, an executive with Family Lines System, which operated the train that derailed in Waverly: "We do our utmost to keep our track and roadbed in good shape. We had inspected the track at Waverly two days before the accident. But there is no way to tell when a wheel will break. There's no way to tell when the metal will get tired...
...miles of roadbed and restore it to good condition. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams rejected the idea. Said he: "Such a move would produce protests from the railroads and the unions, and I personally do not favor it." But he promised to increase the number of federal track inspectors (present total: about 300) and to ask Congress to vote more financial aid for state inspection agencies. Further, Adams pledged to convene a panel of experts to devise safer ways to transport dangerous cargoes. But there is a growing sense among railroaders that the roadbed problem cannot be neglected much longer. Warned...
...time, Warren drifted back to Los Angeles, scuffled around the fringes of the pop world. He wrote advertising jingles, played piano for the Everly Brothers (the "little Suzie" who gets mangled by the excitable boy is a wry nod at them), got' a song onto the sound track of Midnight Cowboy and made one album called Wanted Dead or Alive that attracted scant attention. Eventually he met up with Crystal, and took off to Spain, where he sang for his supper in a Costa Brava saloon run by a soldier of fortune named David Lindell (coauthor of Roland). Lindell...
...Women's track--22nd in Eastern women's meet, placing fifth in two-mile relay with school record time...