Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved rights-of-way using continuously welded track...
...PREMIER; THE TRAIN by Georges Simenon. 248 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Belgian-born Georges Simenon is a great tattletale. His endless series of novels now total about 500, include a mound of pulpy romances, scores of Inspector Maigret mysteries, and dozens of gritty, graceful character studies such as The Premier and The Train. These were first published separately in France some years ago. Both are typical, tidy iterations of an old Simenon thesis: escape in any real sense is impossible...
...Train, the escape is initially from invading Nazis. A diffident, dutiful French shopkeeper hustles his pregnant wife and daughter into the first-class carriage of a refugee train, himself crawls into an overcrowded freight car, and settles down contentedly to escape his dull, daily round. Contentment is compounded when a forlorn Jewish girl beds down with him. When his family gets lost in the wartime shuffle, the lovers happily play house in a refugee reception center until the missing wife and child are found. Then the lovers part. Many months later, fleeing the Gestapo, the girl timidly hunts...
...sleeping compartment on the 10:30 from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with sex, a flirty perfume company representative, a pretty girl leaving home, and a small-time TV actress scared of middle age. An awkward but friendly young stowaway naps briefly in an empty bunk. The train reaches Paris. Someone strangles the flirt after the other passengers have left...