Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trains were traveling on parallel tracks that merged to cross the Gunpowder River bridge north of Baltimore. Amtrak's twelve-car Washington-to- Boston Colonial, carrying 616 passengers, was speeding along at 105 m.p.h. or more. A Conrail train, consisting of three engines, was headed for Harrisburg, Pa. After the Conrail engineer apparently failed to heed a "distant signal" alerting him to slow down, he was unable to respond to a second stop signal and slid directly into the path of the onrushing Amtrak. The passenger train slammed into the rearmost Conrail engine, which exploded. The Amtrak engine caught fire...
...Track vs. Boston College...
...police showed extraordinary restraint in controlling the crowds. Authorities kept track of the marchers' progress from a dozen police vehicles equipped with two-way radios, but made no effort to block the marchers except at the State Guesthouse in western Peking, where public gatherings are strictly forbidden. The ranks began to thin when Peking University Vice President Sha Jiansun announced over a police loudspeaker that all student detainees had been released. By the time those who persisted had completed the ten-mile trip to Tiananmen Square at 3:30 a.m., the size of the crowd had dwindled to only...
...descended from 10,000 ft., a single-engine Cessna suddenly appeared ahead of it and passed just 300 ft. below and a mile to one side. Snapped the startled American pilot: "Center, did you just have an aircraft pass us in the opposite direction?" Controller: "I have an old track I don't see . . . there, target's back up now. I'm sorry about that." Pilot: "Well, that was very, very close...
Atlanta, Houston and New Orleans probably have an inside track because the party would like to renew its old ties with the South. Atlanta pitched itself as the birthplace of the "New South," mixing a ride on the city's modern subway with mint juleps, barbecue and country music in an antebellum mansion at Stone Mountain. Atlanta turned Native Son Jimmy Carter, not the most popular figure in the Democratic Party, into an asset. The highlight of the trip turned out to be a VIP tour of the Carter Presidential Center, after which the former President treated the committee...