Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stucco house. Whatever Mr. Tao said must have been extremely persuasive. Recently the servants overheard a fierce argument between Wei and his anti-Communist son and daughter. Shortly after, Wei and his wife left by automobile, preceded by a dozen pieces of luggage. They changed to a Canton-bound train, and vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain...
...senior partner of Houston's largest law firm, Dillon Anderson in recent years has branched into business as a director of banks, transit lines, Westinghouse and other industrial corporations. His method of unwinding is to travel by train, using the time to write fiction. In his first published novel, I and Claudie (1951), the adventures of two fun-loving Texas hoboes, Anderson gave Bobby Cutler a credit for "encouragement." A poker player, Anderson recently wrote a short story about a poker addict who, abhorring the status quo ante, always ups it. By driving for decisions and following them...
...dressed in somber suits gathered in a waiting room in Coshocton, Ohio. They were members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, and they had just attended the funeral of 82-year-old William Green, their longtime chief. As the labor leaders waited for the train, Green's successor, George Meany, bluntly announced that he had chosen William Schnitzler, of the Bakery Workers Union, to be secretary-treasurer of the federation. Old Dan Tobin, president emeritus of the Teamsters Union, objected angrily. But Meany was unshaken; the election of Schnitzler, he said, would be held...
Leach believes that any new program must: train civilian experts for government work in national defense; create a nucleus of informed public opinion on defense matters among University graduates; conduct research aimed at improving policies...
Although the characters in Bad Day at Black Rock chase each other with automobiles instead of horses, the movie is unquestionably a western. When Spencer Tracy steps off the streamliner into the Arizona hamlet, it is the first time the train has stopped there in for years. Vast desert countryside, in CinemaScope, presents an appropriately morbid and untrammeled background for Black Rock, which contains the usual lawless gang and hapless sheriff. Conspicuously absent, however, is the stereotyped melodrama which might have brought Bad Day at Black Rock down to the level of typical cowboy films...