Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Fawkesians were sparked by a Queens milkman whose nickname is "Nathan Hale," a Long Island land scape artist, and a 40-year-old Danbury State Teachers College sophomore. All belonged to the Minutemen, a hyper-patriotic organization whose members covertly train themselves in guerrilla warfare against the day when a Communist coup takes over the U.S. Not content to wait for the revolution, the Sunday warriors aimed last week to destroy three rustic, rundown camps that at one time or another had been used for left-wing or pacifist meetings...
...greater efficiency was merger, the railroads since 1956 have persuaded the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve 26 mergers. Getting approved for a merger, however, can be a long-term process: the Pennsylvania-Central merger in the East, which has every logic in its favor, is moving at milk-train speed...
Whatever future awaits long-distance trains, the rail is being considered a possible solution to the worsening problem of getting people in and out of big cities with dispatch, efficiency and safety. While one lane of a freeway can move only 2,400 persons an hour past a given point, a train can move 30,000. To encourage a revival of mass transit by rail, the Government gave the movement a nudge in 1961 with a law that henceforward mass transportation must be considered a part of city planning. With close to $200 million of loans and grants, Washington...
Taking things a step farther, President Johnson last year won approval for a $90 million program to put high-speed (160 m.p.h.) trains-much like those of Japan's famed Tokaido line-into service between Boston and Washington, the nation's most people-packed corridor. For a little farther in the future, Detroit auto men are working on a system called Teletrans, in which punch cards would guide 45-m.p.h. private capsules along a track inside a tube. There are also plans for automated superhighways on which card-steered cars would whiz from Detroit to Washington in four...
...specialists will both advise Greek economists on development, and train them in more up to date methods of planning and research, Papaneck said. They will work in cooperation with the Greek Center for Planning and Economics Research...