Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could hand these in on weeks when they chose. Exercises like this would eliminate the need for the puerile quizzes used by section men solely for the purpose of making the class do the reading once a month. And although they need not all be marked, such exercises would train students in brief exposition, insure that a majority of the class had read and considered at least some of the week's reading, and provide--by being read aloud--a basis for section discussion...
ABOARD the Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto Limited at 6:15 one evening last week sat Mr. and Mrs. Christian Herter, bound from Washington for a quick weekend's rest in Green Pond, S.C. Also aboard the train, also bound for Green Pond was TIME Washington Correspondent Harold B. Meyers. Soon after the train pulled out of Washington's Union Station, Meyers handed a porter a note for the Herters, a few moments later was welcomed into their room for an informal interview ("I had known you were aboard," said Herter later, "and I must confess...
...high forehead and the doe-brown eyes raised his hands. Softly he blew into the instrument half-hidden between his palms. He could no more describe the magic than could his friend Feather, after seeing a similar performance almost 20 years ago. There was no need. Haunting as a train whistle at midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub seemed as big as a concert...
...COACH fare cut of 25% on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.) was approved by CAB for five airlines, National, Eastern, Northeast, Northwest and Delta. Rates will be cheaper than bus or train in some cases, e.g., New York-Miami air coach night fare one way $38.61 including tax v. $47.70 by train...
...maximum-security "screen" will surround Cuban Premier Fidel Castro this afternoon as soon as his train pulls into Back Bay Station, and an estimated 300 to 500 policemen will guard him during his speech tonight at Dillon Field House. Police reports indicate that the crowd may reach...