Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last week a Senate appropriations subcommittee heard a 1956 version of the re-enlistment blues. As sung by Assistant Defense Secretary Carter L. Burgess, it was a different tune. It did not concern the "dog soljer"; it was about highly trained specialists whose skills range from running an infantry squad to directing propulsion operations on an atomic submarine. Re-enlistment rates, said Burgess, are dangerously low, particularly among the men who are the most expensive to train, whose capacities are greatest and whose talents would be "the most critical in modern war." Some of the statistics...
...Teardrop Navy. With nuclear power and the missile, the Navy of tomorrow dramatically begins to take shape. Its atomic-fueled task forces will be able to operate for months, perhaps years, without refueling; about 70% of its cumbersome, vulnerable train of oilers can thus be eliminated. Its carriers will still need huge aviation stores, which can be shuttled between stockpile and task force by high-speed nuclear supply ships (the Navy is nearing a breakthrough in high-energy chemical fuels that may give twice the range of conventional aviation fuels). Ships will be teardropped: stacks, made obsolete by nuclear engines...
Clearing the Way. Long before Tito and his Junoesque wife arrived at the Bois de Boulogne Station in their special blue and silver armor-plated train, all known anti-Titoist refugees in Paris were placed under surveillance. The most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep...
...camera's hypnotic eye and the overbearing mass of cables and equipment win priority almost everywhere. Policemen barred reporters from the scene of a recent Los Angeles train wreck while TV cameras prowled after a trench-coated commentator interviewing survivors as they came out of the wreckage. When Marilyn Monroe returned to Hollywood after a year's absence, officials at the airport held reporters back until live and filmed TV crews got their fill. Hollywood's annual Academy Award ceremony, says the U.P.'s Aline Mosby, is "Now entirely geared...
...train pulled into Seoul, it was met by a crowd of 20,000, many of them students from Korea University and the National University of Seoul, both anti-Rhee strongholds. "Overthrow Dictator Syngman Rhee," they shouted. Some climbed over the train and smashed windows in an effort to view Shinicky's body. Then, when the body was transferred to an ambulance, demonstrators snake-danced through the streets after...