Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Melvin Walker, 43, an unemployed Manhattan maintenance man, started to follow his wife into a subway car during the afternoon rush hour. The doors slammed shut-gripping his right arm between them like a vise. The train began to move. Inside the car, Walker's wife screamed. Walker tugged desperately to free himself. As the train picked up speed, he walked, trotted, then sprinted to keep up. Stumbling, sliding, frantically pulling to free his arm, Walker was dragged to the end of the platform and slammed into a metal rail. As the train entered the tunnel, he was battered...
...Russia. The government did not want him. Lenin, who had already received $10 million from the German government to further the revolution, again turned to Berlin. Since the Germans knew that he wanted Russia to conclude peace at all costs, they sent him to Russia in the celebrated special train...
...sped across Germany, Lenin telegraphed orders to his lieutenants. In Stockholm, there was a hasty meeting with Red agents, and time to buy an overcoat and a pair of shoes. Next evening, at twilight, the train pulled into St. Petersburg's dingy Finland Station, and Lenin stepped to the platform, unsure whether he was to be welcomed or arrested...
...clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds," said Justice Edmund Davies before passing sentence on the twelve Great Train Robbers before him. "It is nothing less than a sordid crime of violence inspired by vast greed." For their parts in the $7,369,000 robbery of the royal mails last August (most of the money has not yet been recovered), seven of the men drew 30 years apiece, only one got less than 20.* "Don't worry, Mum, I'm still young," shouted out one of the men who had received a 25-year sentence...
Pensions & Pesticides. Another curious Du Pont was Alfred I, who was too busy running the company (in the early 1920s) to visit his children after he divorced his wife. After 14 years he was surprised to learn that his daughter had sat across the aisle from him on a train some years before; he had not recognized her. In the days before social security, Alfred pioneered in the field of old-age pensions, spent $350,000 of his own money in pension checks for Delaware's needy. His cousin and archenemy Pierre shelled...