Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elevated train and on foot, from babies in prams to oldsters in wheelchairs, the West Berliners flooded through the Wall to visit relatives living in the Eastern zone, now accessible during four holiday seasons each year under the pass agreements negotiated last September. Young and old lugged huge baskets filled with fruits, candies, coffee, tea, sugar and liquors-all in short, or ersatz, supply in Communist East Germany. On the Western side accumulated intended gifts that the surly Vopo guards would not allow through: books, records, TV equipment, film, photographs of any kind-even color slides of family outings...
...Munsters, The Bob Hope Chrysler Theater, and The Virginian are all in the top 20. NBC will on Jan. 30 add another MCA show called Big Three Golf, a weekly continuing match between Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player. MCA also presents Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock, Wagon Train, The Kraft Suspense Theater, Broadside, 90 Bristol Court and McHale's Navy. At least 22 TV programs are now being shot on the Universal lot. Nor has all this activity crowded out the company's commitments to theatrical motion pictures. On the contrary, TV takes care of the overhead...
...felt by the doctor's hand. And it was in an especially dangerous location, below the branching of the kidney arteries (see diagram). It was time for surgery, but there did not seem to be much of a rush -the duke went to Houston by slow, jolting train...
Doyle's sentence was twice as long as the one North Carolina gives an armed bank robber, three times longer than a train robber's, 30 times longer than a drunken driver's. His alleged crime-a single homosexual act between consenting adults-is a misdemeanor in New York; in 24 other states, homosexual offenses are punished only when openly committed, as Doyle's was not. The prestigious American Law Institute aims to exempt private "deviate sexual behavior" between consenting adults, punishing only those involving force or corruption of children...
...British executives was recently given as 61-older than either bishops or members of the Cabinet. Many companies are still family-owned and fusty, and the existence of an "Old Boy" network of gentlemen amateurs discourages the formation of an industrial meritocracy. Many executives lack professional business training-and there are few places where they could train anyway: there are only about 600 management students in the entire country...