Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Harvard made this trip four years ago, they emerged with a record of one win and two losses, and team captain Jon von Schalkwyk hopes for little more than that this year. As usual, the club must train backs who have never played rugby before, and this year the spring trip will be the first competition for at least three backs...
...Baylor University. Drama Professor Paul Baker turned the Texas Baptist school into a renowned center of experimental theater. The Waco wizard's 1953 Othello split the tortured Moor into three separate characters; later he got Actor Burgess Meredith to be anchor prince in a three-faceted Hamlet. To train graduate students, in 1959 he opened a stunning repertory theater in Dallas, the only theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In baffled admiration, the late Charles Laughton once called Baker "crude, irritating, arrogant, nuts and a genius...
When he won at San Francisco, Cassius threw away his round-trip plane ticket, borrowed money from a referee, and took a train home instead. The Olympics were out, he told Martin. No boat berths were available, and Clay would not fly. Martin sat him on a park bench, told him that the Olympic gold medal was his only chance to be wealthy and famous. "You'll have to gamble your life," he said. "Your whole future depends on this one plane ride to Rome. You'll have to gamble your life." Cassius agreed...
When Roy Marcus Cohn at 32 bought control of Lionel Corp. in 1959, he was something like a little boy with a big toy. He switched the profitless model-train maker into everything from electronics to parachutes, brought in former Army Missile Chief John B. Medaris as president. Lionel turned into the black in 1960, but then some of Cohn's costly schemes began to sour. The company lost $2,500,000 in 1961, another $4,000,000 in 1962; Cohn shucked off several of the new subsidiaries and eased out General Medaris. Last week the word went...
...Instead of the usual deserted Main Street setting, West's showdown shooting match takes place on a careening runaway train loaded with gold, bandits and George Peppard. When the whole thing cracks up at the end of the scene in a magnificent melange of flying bodies, hurtling timbers, exploding machinery and snapping chains, the audience's wet palms explode in a burst of spontaneous applause...