Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recordings glorifying the World's Fair City. Happen to Like New York. Caterina, who was born in Paris and can sing in eleven languages, has just the right cosmopolitan shimmer in her voice to make the compliment mean something, and she refreshes songs like Take the A" Train and Lullaby of Broadway...
...Five Negroes crowded around Michael Sadev, 17, on a Manhattan express train, demanded his money, insisted he play his transistor radio for them. When Sadev refused, one punk stabbed him in the shoulder while doz ens of other commuters watched-apparently afraid to intervene. All of the Negroes were arrested, but they were released in custody of their parents because they were juveniles and Sadev refused to press charges...
...Four young Negroes, one swinging a meat cleaver, ranged through the cars, terrorizing passengers on a Brooklyn train. Finally, one yanked open the door of Motorman George Dauenheimer's cab, held the cleaver at his neck and snarled, "Are you black or white?" Dauenheimer said, "I'm white." The Negro shouted, "I'm just going to cut your head off." But when Dauenheimer stopped the train, the hoodlums jumped off. When they tried to break into a change booth, they were arrested and jailed by subway police...
Just hours after Wagner's beefed-up subway force went on duty, a Negro pulled a knife and slashed it across the face of Cab Driver Henry Feist, 64, as he rode a Brooklyn train. The man was arrested and held on assault charges. But Nick Philippides, his face still swollen and battered, now spoke for a whole city when he said: "Of course I'll have to take the subway. I have no car, and I have to work for a living. But I'll be afraid...
...speaks French, Spanish, Swedish, Russian - and Danish acquired while her physicist father was posted at the Nils Bohr Institute in Denmark. In Copenhagen she won second place in a French contest, represented Denmark on a trip to Paris. She helps with a class for retarded children, will train as a language teacher at Stanford...