Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighter after the rebellion is crushed, but who also refuses to hide the revolutionary's machine gun from the Red authorities. Contemptuous of both sides, the professor allows the gun to lie openly in the vestibule of his apartment. Later, the professor travels to the frontier in a train crowded with passengers who hope to flee to the West, at the last moment decides he cannot escape the guilt for having harbored a weapon that was used to kill others...
N.I.T. was fathered by James L. Mc-Kinley in 1942 to train production engineers for Northrop Aircraft's wartime assembly lines. By war's end, the school had proved so successful that Northrop turned it into a subsidiary company with the sole function of educating technicians for the entire aircraft industry. By 1947, the two-year school was rolling in subsidized G.I. Bill students. McKinley, sensing an opportunity to make the school into a junior Caltech, bought it from Northrop and turned it by 1960 into a tax-exempt institution valued...
...final camp, Chan used his last article of wealth, a Parker pen set, to bribe his way into the prison hospital. On a stormy night he slipped out a window, climbed the fence, and raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver...
...office building.) It will have 2,400,000 sq. ft. of rentable space-400,000 more than the Empire State Building, though it is only 59 stories high to the Empire State's 102. No building ever had a more accessible location; it can be reached by train, car, subway, taxi, air. Its roof will be a heliport equipped to handle 25-passenger twin-turbine helicopters; through its cellarage rumble some 400 trains daily; and in between, 63 elevators will carry some 25,000 office staffers and executives up and down...
...turning out 6,000 cars a month, Pearce bustles with plans to step up his sales. Willys' present 285 dealerships in Brazil will be doubled within two years; remote agencies will receive new cars by air. Willys also plans to establish 500 emergency repair shops around the country, train mechanics to man them, and-provide spare parts. Eventually Pearce hopes to export from Brazil to other Latin American nations. In time, Willys do Brasil and its American cousin may even meet head on in a battle for export markets. Edgar Kaiser already foresees the possibility. Says he: "When that...