Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lorenz and the others arrived in Rotterdam by student ship on July 12, and traveled by train to Yugoslavia. For the next three and a half weeks, the Harvard student became a member of the Kamakovsky family in an apartment-housing project in Sarajevo. The five-year-old housing development, built by the government for factory workers, contained some 1800 apartments, an elementary school, and a shopping center...
Lorenz remembers standing for six hours on a packed express train that runs between Belgrade and Athens. "We played gin rummy," he said. "One guy was the table--his right hand for the discard pile and his left for drawing...
Only at one point in the summer did Lorenz feel that the Experiment ideal was fully realized, and that was when their 42 Yugoslav friends bid the Americans goodbye at the Sarajevo station. After the usual exchange of addresses and emotional leave-taking, the train pulled out at 10:30 p.m. One fat Yugoslav mother ran the whole length of the station, yelling in the only English words she knew, "Come back, come back and see us someday...
...effort to become accepted as a real member of the family--and a great feeling of satisfaction for the Experimenter if he achieves this closeness with his foreign family. There are bound to be young peoples parties for the visit- ing Americans, and there is a group trip by train, bus, boat or bicycle depending on the terrain of the country...
...Greek hero Jason sought and found the fabled Golden Fleece, outward symbol of all that was most rich and rare. Today's Jason is another golden Greek, the modern-day Argonaut Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 48 (TIME, Aug. 6, 1956), whose tanker fleets gird the globe, bring in a train of wealth and credit that affords Niarchos comforts and pleasures beyond even Jason's imaginings. Niarchos has a Long Island estate, a Manhattan triplex, a penthouse atop London's Claridge's, a princely hótel particulier in Paris, a $575,000 Riviera villa and the largest...