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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Billy Strayhorn, 51, jazz composer and Duke Ellington's strong-though all but invisible-right hand for all these years, who composed such hits as Chelsea Bridge, Johnny Come Lately, and Take the A Train, all of which were commonly identified with Ellington alone; of cancer; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 9, 1967 | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...Western Europe these days, planes are getting increasing competition from the oldfashioned, earthbound railroad train. Across the Continent, a spreading network known as the Trans Europe Express is holding its own in the jet age - and teaching its passengers to expect luxury while they travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Luxury on the Track | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

Brainchild of Frans Q. den Hollander, former president of Netherlands Railway, Trans Europe was born of a desire to make travel truly pleasant. "I am fed up with the bureaucrats at the borders," said Den Hollander. His original plan called for a single type of train that would link a united Europe-with a spur under the Channel to Britain. Although that grand scheme has yet to be realized, Den Hollander has succeeded in eliminating visa-checking delays at borders. Nowadays customs officials do their work aboard the moving trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Luxury on the Track | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...railroads, which lost about $400 million hauling passengers last year, are also counting on a boost from new equipment. Last week a high-speed train, manufactured by the Budd Co., hit 156 m.p.h. on a 21-mile strip of New Jersey test track. Financed by the Federal Government, the speedster promises three-hour service in October between Washington and New York, cutting present track time by 45 minutes. For long-haul service, however, the future remains gloomy on U.S. railroads. Only last month, B. F. Biaggini, president of the Southern Pacific Co., told a West Coast audience that "the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Luxury on the Track | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...West is a standard horse epic in which the Oregon trail is a metaphor for life and the people in the wagon train are symbolic of mankind. Adapted from a novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr., the film has somehow lost the earthy realism of the book, and has become merely a landlocked ship of fools. Among the passengers are a flint-eyed scout (Robert Mitchum), a pioneering couple (Richard Widmark and Lola Albright), a frightened newlywed who alternately freezes and teases her husband, a Negro slave-not to mention a crowd of teenagers, old folks and other essentials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Landlocked Ship of Fools | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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