Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Characteristically, he introduced a homely personal touch-a letter from Cathy May Baker, 7, of Park Forest, Ill. She had written weeks before to tell the President that her grandmother wanted to take a train from New York to see Cathy's first Holy Communion, and would President Johnson "please keep the railroads running so that she can come to see me." Full of happy-ending sentiment, Lyndon looked into the cameras and said, "So Cathy's grandmother can now go to see her, and all my fellow Americans can be proud that the railroad management...
...turned out, Cathy's grandma had made the trip by train more than a week before, stayed three days and was already back in New York...
...reconaissance mission for the Nazi government. He made several contacts in Washington, then began a tour of cities along the East Coast. Intensely curious about the visitor's purposes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned one of its own agents, Robert Tonis, to follow him. The German boarded a train for Boston, and Tonis, according to plan, waited for him at South Station. But as soon as the train pulled in, the spy dashed into a taxi, sped up Memorial Drive, stopped at Harvard, and ran into one of the Houses on the Charles River. Although Tonis had been close...
...Davies proved that judges "are not afraid of imposing deterrent sentences." The Conservative Daily Express saluted them as "a measure of the com munity's need for defense." But perennially angry Methodist Dr. Donald Soper called them "miserable and dreadfully unchristian." The Daily Herald pointed out that the train robbers were not armed, saw the sentences threatening Britain's "great technical and ethical difference between crimes at gunpoint and crimes without guns." Since even murderers often serve an average of only 15 years, the Daily Mirror asked: "Does this mean that stealing bank notes is regarded as more...
...Werner was the best male skier the U.S. ever produced. The son of a rancher from Steamboat Springs, Colo., he had never even been on a train or plane when, at 17, he traveled to Europe and in Norway beat Europe's best. If Olympic medals are a true test of a skier's ability, Werner was a failure, because he never won any. He broke a leg training for the 1960 Winter Olympics, and by the time this year's Games rolled around, he was 28 and past his peak. But over the years...