Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work between speeches, airplane rides and motorcades. Or after the candidate has gone safely to bed and can't make any more news. At least, you think he can't. But there is nothing predictable about this business. You can't leave the man (on this train everyone knows who you mean if you say, 'What's the man doing now?') alone for a moment. Sleep a little and he is out on the back platform in his pajamas and bathrobe, as he was at Salisbury...
...campaigning, Eisenhower got to bed past midnight, was routed out again at 2 a.m. in Austin, where a crowd of 800 had gathered at the station. Most were students from the University of Texas, who came with Ike signs, cowbells and kerosene torches. Ike and Mamie appeared on the train's platform in dressing gowns. Said he: "This is really something ... I hope you get all A's tomorrow...
Later, on the way into Dallas, the Eisenhower party was badly shaken up when a coupling broke and the train came to a jarring halt, overturning furniture and smashing Mamie's cosmetics...
...began. About 6,000 Moslems in India fled eastward into East Pakistan. Out of East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside was soon stripped bare of everything edible. They...
After a 26-hour train trip from Paris, Rita Hayworth arrived in Madrid, without husband Aly Khan. Escorted by a group of Spanish playboys, Rita drove to a nearby town to watch Spain's No. I bullfighter, Luis Miguel Dominguin. Dominguin dedicated his bull to Rita ("The most beautiful woman in North America"), and Rita rose to acknowledge the honor ("Good luck to the handsomest man in Spain"). After he had killed his target, Dominguin gallantly presented Rita with the ears and the tail of the bull...