Word: trained
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...were derived from a mixture of Spanish and Arab stock, and in 1565 Maximilian II of Austria made military news of some magnitude when he imported a string of steel-white Spanish steeds to his estate at Lipizza. In 1735 the Spanish Riding School was established in Vienna to train the finest Lipizzan stallions in the classic battle tactics devised by a French riding master named Antoine Pluvinel. Bonapartes and Habsburgs came and went. The horse itself became obsolete as a weapon of war. But in its great white temple, the great white breed, serving like a race of priests...
...Scotsmen and old-age pensioners, apprentices, mill girls and grizzled steelworkers. Most came from the northern shipbuilding and steelmaking cities of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the misery of the 1930s is not forgotten. Last week, by contrast with the hunger marches of that era, most arrived by train or bus; some even came by plane. Said a Scottish miner: "We are not hungry men asking for food. We are angry men asking for self-respect." Getting into Politics. They pointed out that though warm weather has boosted employment in homebuilding and heavy construction, the actual total of unemployed...
...traced to recent Zermatt visitors in Switzerland and eight foreign countries. Little Zermatt was suddenly in the headlines all over the world. Virtually all the 10,000 tourists had staged a hurried exodus, leaving Zermatt a ghost town occupied by 120 green-uniformed Swiss army medical corpsmen. By sealed train and helicopter, the army men evacuated local victims, and health inspectors poking through Zermatt's water system discovered the probable cause of it all-a hole in a water pipe into which sewage was seeping...
...Liner Trains. Like most U.S. railroaders, Beeching also wants to carry more freight and fewer passengers. Hoping to attract more business from industry, he will ask for $280 million to start "Liner Train" service, in which piggyback trains would run between major British cities on frequent, fast schedules. Under Beeching's plan, which Parliament is expected to adopt, the comfortable sound of the puffing billies chugging through the British countryside will become a thing of the past. Beeching is willing to trade it for the rustle of pound notes...
Miss Jones said the June volunteers will go to work on projects involving housing, labor, and voting registration. "We want to spread-out our volunteers a bit so they'll be able to train local kids in quite a number of areas," she explained...