Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAILROAD MAN. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style) plays the title role in his sentimental 1956 drama about a 50-year-old train engineer whose life goes off the track...
...Washington's Walter Reed Hospital last week to recuperate from his second heart attack in a decade. The trip from Augusta, where he was stricken during a golfing vacation Nov. 9, had taken 13 hours (at an average 45 m.p.h.) aboard an eight-car Atlantic Coast Line Railroad train with a hospital car equipped with electronic heart-monitoring equipment and staffed by 34 doctors, nurses and military policemen. The odyssey was paid for by the Defense Department because the General's trip was billed as a "military move...
There were other displays of protest as Rhodesia entered its second week of independence. A few bombs were set off, and mobs of Africans stoned schools, buses and a mail train. In the midlands town of Gwelo, police broke up a protest march by 239 black schoolboys, hauled them all off to be flogged...
...Center were created, he said, it should stress the application of various disciplines to Latin American affairs rather than a sweeping study of all the area's problems. "I don't think we should try to train 'Latin American experts,' the way many universities do," he said. "Instead, we should have economists specialize in the region's economy, historians in the history...
...middle of the Williamsburg Bridge, high above the inky East River, 1,700 passengers in two trains were suspended like riders on the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. "The wind would blow," said Mary Cronin Doyle, 18, "and the train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out?including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...