Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guessing all of them were the ubiquitous White House presidential advisers, chiefly Richard Goodwin, 30, who seemed to have a hand in every Latin American decision. Only recently have things settled down. Last week Goodwin was in Europe setting up a "world conference on middle management" to help businessmen train second-echelon executives. In firm charge at last of Latin American policy is Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin, 54, a career Government economist. Under him, Alliance Boss Moscoso seems to be getting the free hand he needs to make the Alliance work...
...about the so-called Southern belle," announced the taboogeyman of the theater, Tennessee Williams, 50, ringing down what sounded like a second-act curtain on his stock character in trade. In London to catch up on West End theater after the Italian premiere of his newest play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, Williams mused: "I don't think I feel as aggressive and belligerent about life as I used to. You might find what I call mysticism coming into things I write in the future." There also was an earthly matter he wanted...
Stepping off the train in Stockholm, Dwight Eisenhower knew reporters would be asking him about his 1960 remarks blaming Sweden's high suicide rate, drunkenness, and lack of ambition on its social welfare state. Ike's first words were: "Before anybody gets a chance to ask, I want to make clear that the remark about Sweden was based on what I had read in an American magazine. Since then, I have−had many friends who have returned from Sweden and told me that I was wrong. I admit it and apologize for my error." Later, touring...
...Spot. The anguish of parents put European governments on the spot. In West Germany, health departments were making plans to train 2,500 or more deformed children and to fit them with artificial limbs. In Britain, Socialist Lady Summerskill asked the government to consider legalizing abortions. It refused. In Belgium, a young couple and their doctor were in jail, awaiting trial on a charge that they murdered a malformed thalidomide baby with an overdose of another sleep-inducing drug...
...hall of the old Baths of Caracalla. The station also has a classical colonnaded facade, broad and elegant staircases, a huge, skylighted concourse with vaulting arches of lacy steel and glass. It smells of past grandeur and wars and old steam and tears and waitin'-for-the-train-to-come-in. All this is going to be torn down because it no longer makes economic sense...