Word: train
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Domingo, meanwhile, not transmitted the grisly details back to Cambridge but spent much of this summer discussing the Zinacantan scene with a group of undergraduates in San Cristobal. The students, most of whom came from Harvard, we sponsored by a joint summer field studies program, designed in 1959 to train college students at anthropological centers in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, as well as in Mexico...
When it opens full service on the 320-mile run between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, the New Tokaido will be the world's fastest train. Bullet-shaped locomotives will whip 108 passenger trains daily over twelve miles of bridges, through 40 miles of tunnel and around gentle curves at speeds averaging 105 m.p.h. This is considered too fast for human engineers; computers will control the trains most of the way, with speeds and slowdowns for stops programmed on tape. Running time will be cut to three hours, from 6½ hours on the parallel Old Tokaido Line...
Glossiest train now running is Italy's Settebello, which barrels along at 98 m.p.h. between Rome and Milan, has cut the rail trip by two hours to 6 hr. 20 min. It carries only 160 passengers, and they can enjoy piped music, patronize the train's barber, manicurist, telephone, newsstand and shower. Despite a 45% surcharge, the Settebello is often sold...
West Germany's Rheingold Express also uses spiffiness and speed (100 m.p.h. at times) to lure passengers on its run from Basel to Hook of Holland. Tourists can ogle the Rhineland from picture-window observation cars and, as on all German trains, eat a full-course gourmet meal for about $2.25. Now West Germany's state-run Bundesbahn is aiming for 125-m.p.h. service. In France the Mistral, which once hit 206 m.p.h. for the world's record, rolls along at an easier 80 m.p.h. or so from Paris to Lyon. Together with Austria and Switzerland...
Europe argues otherwise. In Germany, for example, the Autobahnen are sleek, straight and alive with Volkswagens and Opels, yet the express-train business is booming. "Improved service will automatically increase the number of travelers." says a German Bundesbahn spokesman, and he finds it especially true on fast downtown-to-downtown runs...