Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRAIN. A battle of the rails pits Burt Lancaster against Nazi Officer Paul Scofield, who tries to whisk a trainload of French art treasures off to Germany during the last days of the occupation...
...TRAIN. Prior to the Allied liberation, athletic Burt Lancaster pursues boxcars full of French art masterpieces toward the German border while Director John Frankenheimer wreaks havoc on the rails...
Some major changes: > Courses are becoming less specialized, more intellectual and analytical. "Our function," says Dean Bernard F. Landuyt of Detroit University's college of commerce, "is to train business leaders, not clerks." When Robert R. Dockson became dean of the University of Southern California's school of business administration five years ago, he revamped its content from top to bottom, adding to the faculty experts in sociology, philosophy, political science and physics. Says he: "I cut out all the Mickey Mouse courses that were purely descriptive...
They did at A. & M. in College Station, Texas, where the gym is a big attraction. The nearest bottle of liquor is seven miles away, and the sidewalks seem to roll up of their own accord at 6 p.m. "I wanted a place where I could study and train and nothing else," explains Shotputter Matson, a gentle giant who calls everybody "sir" or "ma'am" and hardly goes anywhere without bringing along his pet shot in a brown bowling bag. As far as he's concerned, the M in A. & M. stands for Emil Mamaliga, 44, an assistant...
...reported today, Weiner has once again decided to join the SCOPE program. But, because of all the delay and confusion, there is no longer enough time to form and train a separate Harvard chapter. Instead the YD's will channel interested students to the Brandeis chapter, which will work in Columbia, South Carolina...