Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great British Train Robbery is neither great nor British. It is, however, a robbery-by the Germans, of an idea that could have made an excellent picture. The film dramatizes the 1963 hold up of a Royal Mail 'train from which a gang of crooks heisted a world-record $7,000,000, most of it still unrecovered...
...committee plans to publish its own Drama Review and Newsletter and hopes to get grants for showing films and paying experts to train actors, designers, and technicians in seminars...
...said that on his honeymoon in France he would put his wife on the train and then bicycle alongside...
Bright Young Men. Two factors account for the present pilot pinch: low training quotas in the early 1960s, plus the serious drain imposed by the U.S. civilian airlines, which need 6,000 new pilots every year to man rapidly expanding jet fleets and get 85% of them from the Navy and Air Force (which spend more than $150,000 to train each of them). "Look," explains one frustrated Air Force general, "we send a guy to Viet Nam for a year. Then he's supposed to be reunited with his family, but he's sent to Spain...
...That nice price reflects the fact that the agency, presently known as Pinkerton's Inc., is profiting from the growing demand for unblinking private police services. Revenues last year reached $71,379,000 and profits were $1,936,000, owing less to derring-do involving rustlers and train robbers than to routine protection services for industrial plants and exhibitions. The return was particularly significant because it exceeded special revenues of the previous two years when Pinkerton, under the largest single contract ever negotiated by a detective agency, provided as many as 4,500 people a day for police, fire...