Word: train
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...Wears 10A." With such courtesies attended to, Jackie boarded a special air-conditioned train for a look at India's tourist attractions. At Fatehpur Sikri, she watched in fascination as breechclothed youths made a risky, 100-ft. dive off a rampart into a well-and then did it all over again when Jackie discovered that her sister, Lee Radziwill, who was traveling with her, had fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense...
Walking quietly into Washington's Union Station one afternoon last week to entrain for a Princeton trustees' meeting, former CIA Chief Allen Dulles found himself in unexpected company. On the lookout for his own train, he ambled into a crowd gathered on a platform, quickly realized his mistake. Asked Dulles, peering around in puzzlement: "What is this?" Newsmen quickly told him what it was: a reception committee for Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, 42, who arrived in the U.S. last week as the Soviet Union's new Ambassador...
guerrillas are equipped with Red Chinese mortars and antiaircraft guns; they eat jam from Communist Bulgaria; they train Moslem orphans to be carpenters and welders on machines from the Soviet Union...
Time & Distance. The commission also wanted to simplify the mind-boggling formulas by which the wages of train crews are set. Under the present system, an engineer on a fast "red apple" run may be paid $39.95 for only four hours' work because he traveled 160 miles, while the engineer of a slower train may have to work ten hours to collect $34.33 because he traveled only 100 miles. Commented Rifkind: "Whoever invented that system belongs to the Rube Goldberg club." The commission proposed that the straightforward test of hours worked be given greater weight in wage formulas. Other...
...permit train operating crews to switch their own trains in terminals (a job now done by separate yard crews...