Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents' reaction was unusual because the patient was unique: he was Everett Knowles Jr., 13, the Little League pitcher from Somerville whose right arm was torn off by a freight train and sewn back in place at Massachusetts General Hospital. But in this first operation (TIME, June 8), the surgeons rejoined only skin, muscle, bone and blood vessels; they left the all-important nerves until later. In September they rejoined some of the nerves. Whether freckle-faced "Red" Knowles's arm would ever regain its sensation and power could not be foretold...
Died. John Shubert, 53, dour, second-generation head of a backstage family that owned and ran the nation's biggest chain of legitimate theaters (17 of the 33 on Broadway, others in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati); of a heart attack; aboard a train bound for Florida. True to Shubert's instructions, his funeral took place on the stage of the Majestic Theater, with his widow seated by the casket, and some 1,200 mourners and business associates in the orchestra and balconies. No clergy officiated at the rites held, as the theater owner requested...
...Gittel has principles. No matter how terribly she is tempted, she never sleeps with a man on the first date. Unfortunately, Gittel also has a heart as big as Hadassah. She supports half the dead-beatniks who shack up with her, and sometimes she even pays their train fare to see other girls...
...overrun by mediocre administrators who truckle to outside pressures and intimidate the teachers. There are more administrators in New York State alone, writes Goodman, than in all the school systems of Western Europe. "The ultimate rationale of administration," writes Goodman, "is that a school is a teaching machine, to train the young by predigested programs in order to get preordained marketable skills." The young are no longer in college to learn but to be made serviceable to the state...
Instead of programming even more freeways and bridges, city engineers drew up imaginative plans for a rapid-transit system that would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy...