Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McLaughlin, whose 25th cover story this is, became one of assembling a mosaic out of varied, and often conflicting, reports. Two of our foreign sources-who did not know each other-happened to be riding on the same train in China. One described it as filthy, with bugs and bad water. The other thought it clean and the service fine...
...gather the departed readers back into the fold, New York's dailies are trying everything. Hearst's evening Journal-American has announced a $2,000,000 expansion program-most of which, according to the paper's commuter train ads, will go into a new Sunday magazine and a TV program guide. The Daily News is bidding for new readers, presumably bilingual, over the city's Spanish-language radio stations. The New York Herald Tribune is busy preparing new supplements for its Sunday edition. But no one expects the road back to be short or easy. Says...
...lost son, and was told that the boy would be returned soon. Taken to an orphanage in Coburg, the runaway had a party thrown in his honor, was showered with lollipops, bananas, toys and clothing-rare luxuries for an East zone child. Two days later, bundled into the interzonal train and stuffed with goodies, Peter was returned, past embarrassed Grepos to his parents-and a Communist world he doesn't yet understand...
...into him and his Ambrosia and wants to help him find a real escape into a real outer world. Toward the end of the film, she returns to town, reunites with him at a dance, makes love to him in a park, and succeeds in getting him to a train station to begin his freedom ride. They will go off and live together in London. From Richard Burton to the Duke of Windsor, any man could be expected to drop everything and follow her. But not this crow. The train pulls out with her aboard, him on the platform...
...Grows in and Maggie-Now has been replaced by a Midwestern college campus, but the fact is that mythical Brooklyn has merely been transplanted-with its air of nostalgia, its saintly cast of characters and its turn-the-crank emotions comfortably intact. With the momentum of a balky suburban train, Joy tells of the domestic crises suffered by a young law student and his trembling teen-age bride in the first year of their marriage. The two survive because the heroine is "a friendly, warmhearted girl who likes people. No decent person would take advantage of that." Certainly not Novelist...