Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the wave length of light emitted from 0237-23 is more than double what it would normally be; it is shifted toward the red, or longer-wave-length end of the spectrum, by a factor of 2.22. Just as the lowered pitch of the whistle of a receding train is determined by the speed at which it is traveling, 0237-23's red shift-the largest ever observed in a celestial body-indicates to most scientists that the quasar is receding from the earth at 153,000 miles per second. Because the speed of recession of stars...
When a five-man Soviet trade delegation arrived in Colombia three weeks ago, Castroite guerrillas took the occasion to bomb a train and ambush an army patrol, killing 15 persons. In reprisal, President Carlos Lleras Restrepo jailed 200 Communist Party leaders, most of whom were uninvolved in the terrorism. The Russians did not blink an eye or utter a protest; they just pressed right ahead with discussions for expanding last year's $3,000,000 worth of trade between the two countries and setting up consular relations...
...teen-age idols as Paul Newman, whose hip and he-man manner make him an ideal narrator for its film Bennies and Goofballs, some 200 copies of which are now circulating among schools and youth groups. Even more effective are hard-hitting documentary films in which the cameras simply train on the young addicts themselves. Almost every junior high school student in Boston, for example, has seen the movie Hooked at least once in the past two years. In the film, one teen-ager straightforwardly tells how she once stole her uncle's heart pills because of her craving...
...Barrington Ashley of Coaltown, a small mining center in southern Illinois, was tried for the murder of Breckenridge Lansing, also of Coaltown. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Five days later, at 1 in the morning of Tuesday, July 22, he escaped from his guards on the train that was carrying him to his execution...
Slowly, Wilder traces out the threads in the fabric of Lansing's life and his near-redemption; of Ashley, rescued from his prison train by a mysterious band of unarmed intruders; of the Lansing and Ashley children, and their children, until they are all sewed into meaningful stitches in God's (or Wilder's) design...