Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Austrian express train bound from Vienna to Paris got so thoroughly lost in the blizzard that it ended up in Munich. A Yugoslav train reached its destination minus its last five cars; they had blown off en route. Even such southern cities as Marseille and Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally...
...Siberian town of Chernogorsk, near the Mongolian border 2,100 miles to the east. Of late, local authorities there had taken away several children of the sect, and threatened to imprison the adult faithful. With the vague notion that a foreign embassy might help them, the Siberians went by train to Moscow. Now they wanted to travel to "Israel"-probably meaning the Israel of the Old Testament...
With one eye on The Beggar's Opera, Bart has contrived a sort of lovable rogues' operetta, Oliver! is chockablock with songs that are as straightforward, single-minded and rhythmic as a choo-choo train, and they do keep the show steaming briskly and more or less merrily along. Five months on the road have given the company the treacherous confidence, on reaching Broadway, to overplay characters that were already over written to the point of caricature. The cast also knows where all the laughs are buried, and it squirrels them out with stagy anticipatory glee. Bruce Prochnik...
...constipated, centering on a noble youth who seemed to have trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery...
...reduce parking fees at outlying bus and subway stations to encourage commuters to use public transportation for the last stage of their daily journey into the car-clogged heart of Boston. From these points, Boston-area bus fares will be reduced, and bus schedules will be coordinated with train schedules to cut down waiting time...