Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to get to know this area by taking a leisurely trip, soaking up the geography and meeting some of the people who are shaping the region's course. I still aim to make such a trip. The last leisurely trip I had was the train ride that brought us from Chicago...
...Indo-China, at last something was stirring. The Americans had long advocated it; the French, though skeptical, were about ready to let the Americans try it. The plan: U.S. Army instructors would train a big, new Vietnamese army, starting some time this summer, as they had once trained the South Koreans and the Greeks. The objective: five new Vietnamese divisions ready for action this year; four more Vietnamese, one Laotian and three Cambodian divisions ready...
...Reorganize the Vietnamese army into mobile 10,000-to 12,000-man divisions, with Vietnamese commanders. "We want to train these men for offensive action," said one U.S. officer. "We're not interested in training them to go back to their pillboxes...
Each June at Commencement time, the guest speaker arrives on the college campus by the morning train or plane, his "prepared speech tucked in his briefcase. He is greeted by the college president, taken to lunch, escorted to his chair on the speaker's platform. After suitable introduction, he delivers his exhortation, sits down amid fitful handclapping and gets ready to head for home...
Died. Lionel ("The Big Train") Conacher, 52, Canada's greatest all-round athlete (football, baseball, boxing, hockey) of the half-century, best known to U.S. fans as a star hockey defenseman during the '30s for the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Maroons; of a heart attack; in Ottawa...