Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn one morning last week, war came to the dusty Pakistan village of Dhankeal, near Lahore. Mystère jets of the Indian air force slammed rockets into a train at the station, killing three passengers and wounding eleven. Wakened by the explosions, a young peasant named Zakaullah clambered to the roof of his mud hut. "I saw planes in the sky," he said. "And suddenly they started throwing things with fire coming from them. Then one plane started to fall. It came down with a big noise...
...make the switch. Thousands of drivers enjoy not being tied to the unyielding timetable and the often inconvenient station locations of the railroad. Said one New York commuter last week, as he waited immobile (and alone, as do 70% of New York's commuting drivers) in traffic: "The train's part of the city. My car's a part of home...
...Peter Brandt, son of West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic candidate for the chancellorship. Just as his father was crisscrossing the country on a campaign train in search of voter support, the news broke that Peter had put his signature on a Communist front's petition accusing the U.S. of using poison gas in Viet Nam, and demanding withdrawal of American troops. It caused quite a flap for a day or two-until the boy withdrew his name. Both Sides of the Street. The octogenarian provided a more prolonged distraction. He was the Christian Democrats...
Something for Everyone. Brandt's campaign-like Ludwig Erhard's-has been distinctly low key so far, He is currently riding around on a campaign train that, by election time, will have traveled 12,500 miles; he will have visited 44 major cities and delivered no fewer than 75 speeches and 250 curbside pep talks. He has stuck largely to such main issues as prices, education, and health-avoiding rough personal attacks on his opponent...
...Minas Gerais. There the government sought to have Sebastião Paes de Almeida, 53, a multimillionaire industrialist-turned-politician, thrown out of the gubernatorial race for "abuse of economic power"-his legendary largesse at election time has earned him the nickname "Tião," after a famed Brazilian train robber. The state electoral court refused to cancel Paes de Almeida's candidacy. "If that section of the law does not apply to him," grumbled one Castello Branco aide, "we might as well...