Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stressed that the aims of the AFROTC are not simply to teach students how to fly. He said that America's high position of world responsibility has made it necessary to train leaders with "a broad understanding of world problems, tensions, and resources...
Eddie was dropped by parachute, made his way on a commuters' train to London, and holed up in a suburban boardinghouse. With his wireless set he established contact with his German masters. But he also made a call from a pay telephone to a British official. Eddie explained that he had been parachuted in by the Germans, and described his mission, but said he wanted to work for England. Brashly, he named his price-a full pardon for all his safecrackings, and permission to keep the ?2,000 the Germans had supplied him with. The British accepted his terms...
Died. Countess Dorothy (Taylor) di Frasso, 66, fun-loving international hostess; of a heart attack; in a roomette aboard a train taking her from Las Vegas, Nev. back to her Hollywood playground. Inheriting an estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner...
...legendary California prospector-fraud; of a gastrointestinal ailment; at Scotty's Corner, Nev. Scotty first made headlines in 1905 when he rode into Los Angeles flourishing a fat roll of $500 bills, reported that he had just found a fabulously rich Death Valley gold mine, hired a special train to take him to Chicago, and jovially flung $100 tips to the crew. Thereafter he was a Sunday supplement standby. Revelling in his own publicity, he lived in a $2,000,000 Moorish castle in Death Valley, once rode through the streets of Manhattan in a buckboard with a kegful...
Right of Way. Near Peru, Ind., Charles Windoffer was arrested for drunken driving after he mistook the Chesapeake and Ohio tracks for the road to his home, forced an oncoming train to stop, then bawled out the engineer for not dimming his lights...