Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conductor on an early-morning train to New York asked boarding passengers. "What's the latest word?" In Grand Central Station, hundreds watched a waiting-room television screen. In Washington, a man walked down Connecticut Avenue staring into a portable, battery-powered TV set. In Palm Beach, President John Kennedy turned on a set in his bedroom. Back in New Concord, Ohio, Glenn's home town, more than 1,000 people tensely watched the TV monitors set up in the Muskingum College gymnasium. Along a seven-mile stretch of beach near Cape Canaveral, a crowd of some...
...West as if it were en route to a carnival. One man reinforced the family car with armor plate, then crashed through the Wall with wife and friends as the Communist Volkspolizei fired vainly at them. An East German locomotive engineer opened the throttle and took his whole train to West Berlin. But until last week, no one had found a way of reaching freedom under the very feet of the Vopos...
...plays Miss Marple, a sort of dowager-detective who takes the 4:50 train from Paddington Station one afternoon and, happening to glance up from the whodunit she is wolfing, sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. Murder, she says to the police, but they only smile indulgently. Miss Marple gets her back up. "If you think I am going to sit back." she bellows, "and let everybody regard me as a dotty old maid, you are very much mistaken...
...teacher of composition at Mannes, Sydeman lives with his wife and two children in a Manhattan suburb. But he is thinking of moving farther out to increase his 40-minute commuting time. His reason: he does his best composing on trains. "If I'm in the studio I want to get out, but if I'm on the train I can just look out the window. After all, Mozart liked to write in a carriage...
...also for new productions: Ross, A Shot in the Dark, Gideon, A Man for All Seasons, etc. It was not even necessary to hang around the box office for some purple-faced commuter to show up with salable tickets and the heartrending story that his wife had missed the train from New Canaan...