Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centennial has also capped a Canadian culture boom; new museums, libraries and planetariums are going up in such outposts as Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
...Kennedy Ellington, 68. Invited to Washington to grace a White House dinner honoring Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his Queen, the Duke had just spooned into his dessert when the background musicians, a championship jazz group from North Texas State University, ventured into Take the A Train, Ellington's theme song. Excusing himself from the table, the Duke moved into the motorman's seat at the piano, got the collegians home without missing a signal. What did he think of the young band? asked the King. "I wish it were mine," deadpanned the maestro...
...Every time they opened a new superhighway," said George Akerson, publisher of the Boston Traveler, "we got kicked in the teeth. If you go home on a train, you read a newspaper...
Since September, FIGHT has been demanding that Kodak hire and train 6000 unskilled, unemployed Negroes. On December 20, a Kodak assistant vice-president signed an agreement with FIGHT on just those terms. But the announcement of the agreement came as a complete surprise to Kodak executives, who immediately repudiated...
Relations between Kodak and FIGHT deteriorated, and after January 10, negotiations broke down completely. Ironically, Kodak has been a model company and set an example for the whole country in its programs to hire and train Negroes...