Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japan's disaster toll last week stood at 450 in the Kyushu mine explosion, and 162 in the three-train wreck near Yokohama. As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long...
...dust in a vast explosion. At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track. Seconds later, alerted by a warning flare, a passenger train southbound from Tokyo halted on a clear track beside the freight. At that moment, a northbound commuter train roared up the middle track. The locomotive crashed into the derailed freight cars, did a right angle flip and sliced through the fifth and six coaches of the passenger train. The first...
...best-equipped mines in the country. The government could point out that the stretch of track where the collision occurred was equipped with modern safety devices-but they proved useless because the entire chain of events, from the derailment of the freight cars to the arrival of the third train, took less than 30 seconds...
...TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Charles Bronson joins the wagon train for the remainder of the journey...
...short stories. The title story, for instance, tells of a dying man who travels about the city visiting friends, pawnbrokers, even a synagogue, trying to raise money to send his idiot son to relatives in California. He gets the money, but before he can put his son on the train he has to struggle with a ticket collector named Ginzburg-who turns out to be Death...