Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicholas Philippides, 54, a bespectacled little Greek immigrant who runs a restaurant in Brooklyn, wearily boarded an IND subway train at the Stilwell Avenue stop near Coney Island amusement park. It was 2 a.m., and Nick was there because he had been helping a friend run a hot-dog stand at the park...
...train pulled out, and over the rumble of wheels Philippides heard scuffling and shouting as a score of Negro boys ran from car to car, smashing lights, roughing up passengers. Nick sat tight. One young marauder gashed a leg while kicking out a window, and his pals tended to the wound as he lay in the aisle near Nick Philippides. Through Nick's mind flashed the advice his fa ther gave him in Greece years ago: "If someone wants to eat with you, sit down and eat with them. But if someone wants to fight with you, move away...
...returns the child's eye to the retinas of men. Emerging from subway, train or even hydrofoil, the visitor to the New York World's Fair feels that he is in a special world, full of runaway pylons, impossible cantilevers, and buildings that look like flowers or accidents of flowing lava...
Totems & Pen Pals. You can see wonderful relics of the early West in a train that has come from Montana-an invitation to a hanging, a machine with which a bartender could mix drinks with his foot, Calamity Jane's thundermug, and Custer's watch. In Parker Pen's handsome pavilion, a computer can seine the world to find you a pen pal who matches your interests and talents. In the New York City building, there is a fabulous 100-ft. by 160-ft. model of the city, including every structure in all five boroughs, built...
...mollycoddler, Manager Mauch always has a train ticket ready for a slacker. Starting pitchers know that it is no use arguing when he wants a replacement from the bullpen. He simply marches to the mound and holds out his hand for the ball. His hair-trigger temper is legendary; he has been suspended three times for jawing with umpires, and wise players stay out of his way on a losing afternoon. One day last year, infuriated by a narrow loss to Houston, he stalked into the clubhouse, found the Phillies feasting gaily on a buffet of barbecued spareribs-and flipped...