Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vicious influence of African nationalism has turned their bone marrow to jelly." That is how Sir Roy Welensky, ex-boxer, ex-train engineer and for five years Federal Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, describes certain "metropolitan countries," presumably including Britain. Reason for Sir Roy's wrath:the situation in Northern Rhodesia, latest on the seemingly endless list of African trouble spots...
...Corona electric. He has no set output and contends that "out of a year's writing days, there are only five good ones." He may work on any one of three or four manuscripts. Last week, in Key West, he was working on his next play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, about a rich, much-married ex-Follies star in her 60s who lives in an Italian villa and recovers her "capacity to feel again'' with a handsome young freeloader...
...Murder (She Said), is, in form, a murder mystery, sensibly, 4:50 From Paddington. Miss Rutherford, you see, observes during the first minute of the movie, a murder on a train running parallel to one on which she is traveling; and naturally enough, her sole object thereafter is to track down the malfeasant. The police, equally naturally, are rather stupid, and think Miss Rutherford's gone barmy. She, consequently, marches fearlessly to the house where she has traced the skulduggery, and in her most formidable dowager's tweeds, and devastatingly sensible shoes, assumes the post of cook-chambermaid, the better...
...rooming house near Liverpool. He remembered that the house had a green bath in the attic, but he had not signed the guest register and could find no witness who could positively remember having seen him there. On his way to Liverpool, Hanratty claimed, he had traveled in a train compartment with a man who wore gold cuff links initialed with the letter E. Despite appeals from the defense, no E came forward to testify...
...about Ruanda-Urundi, the little Belgian-run territory east of the Congo that is due to get freedom next July 1. One proposal would have ordered Belgian troops to leave by that date, but U Thant pointed out that neither the U.N. nor the new country itself could possibly train troops quickly enough to keep law and order; sensibly, the Africans and Asians last week rewrote their motion to let the Belgians stay on temporarily-thereby avoiding what could have been another Congo...