Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing a locomotive engineer's cap, Barry Goldwater took over the controls of his Whistle Stop Special in Logansport, Ind., guided the train on a brisk two-mile run down the line. That was about the only time Goldwater's campaign for the presidency seemed to be moving forward...
Still rolling at express-train pace, the third session of the Vatican Council last week debated an issue that for many remains the supreme test of Roman Catholicism's good will toward other faiths and the modern world. Under discussion was the proposed declaration on antiSemitism, and the coffee bars inside St. Peter's were deserted as the 2,500 bishops huddled silently in the aula, listening while speaker after speaker denounced the text as inadequate, meaningless and unjust...
Worst of all, the campaign's pell-mell pace prevents the newsman from pausing a while to ponder what he has seen and heard. There is scarcely time enough to keep up with the candidate. Last week Barry Goldwater's party, traveling by train for a spell, pulled so abruptly out of the station in Athens, Ohio, that about 30 newsmen were stranded on the platform...
...campaign pace not only confined reporters to covering the speeches. It also prevented the men running the show from maintaining a proper guard against ringers. Thus last week a dark-haired volunteer worker from the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington had little trouble infiltrating the Goldwater Special train. Posing as a freelance writer, Moira O'Connor, 23, managed twice to distribute copies of an anti-Goldwater broadside the full length of the train, missing only the candidate...
Exposed as a spy, and the agent of a California Democratic prankster named Richard Tuck, Miss O'Connor was put off the train in Parkersburg, W. Va., only ten hours after boarding. But however simple-minded her mission might have been, campaign newsmen, on a starvation diet of steaks and oratory, jumped at the chance to report it. In front-page stories around the U.S., they gave the Democrats' girl spy a far better ride than she had got on the Goldwater Special...