Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely new car: the Oldsmobile Toronado, first U.S. model in 29 years with "front-wheel drive." A six-passenger sports coupe, it has an engine that feeds power directly to the front wheels. Because those wheels dig into a curve and pull the car along like a train or a trailer-truck, the Toronado corners as smoothly at 60 m.p.h. as many cars do at 35 m.p.h., does not need chains or snow tires. Test drivers who were assigned to overturn it found that almost impossible to do because the car is so low-slung (five inches off the ground...
...only a minor concern of the critics; what shocks them is that, unlike Picasso, he has never really learned the tools of his trade. He handles the cape like a housewife flapping a bed sheet and uses the bright red muleta as if he were flagging down a train. Worst of all, he is so inept with the sword that about the only way he can be sure of killing the bull is to shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks he has heard...
...every detail. Hussein Tawfic, a veteran terrorist who had successfully rubbed out one of King Farouk's finance ministers, was put in command of a select group assigned to blow up Nasser in his motorcade. If he failed, other brothers were ready to blast Nasser off his presidential train somewhere between Cairo and Alexandria, and still others were prepared to shoot him on the way to his home in the suburbs of Cairo...
Died. Joshua Lionel Cowen, 85, inventor of the Lionel electric train, a boyhood tinkerer who got off on the right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach...
...earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial inefficiency, the Russians shunted him from camp to camp, finally sent him off on a ramshackle freight train that wandered erratically for 33 days across six countries before setting him down at last in sunny Italy. The journey had its bits of humor: Captain Egorov, commander of a repatriation camp, met the news of an imminent general inspection by swathing the Augean public latrine in an impenetrable tangle of barbed...