Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strain showed. More than anyone else, the airmen wanted to believe that peace was indeed at hand. "The letdown was just killing," said Captain James H.S. Train, a veteran of more than 200 missions who is now on his sixth combat tour. "We're just hanging on by our fingernails." Later another flyer warned: "Just don't pass out any more peace rumors...
Oldtime railway executives hooted when Washington Attorney Eugene Garfield bought some railroad cars and rolled out the Auto-Train a year ago. After all, everybody knows that passenger trains are unprofitable and unpopular. Who would want to pay to haul his automobile along with his family by rail from the Washington area to northern Florida? The answer is that 157,329 travelers have wanted to-so far. As the Auto-Train Corp. closed its books on its first year last week, the company's annual revenues were running around $11 million, and in the past six months after...
Like some European and Canadian trains, the Auto-Train hauls passengers and their autos in separate coaches. Manned by crews from the Seaboard Coast Line and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, the 400-passenger train takes 15 hours to make the 1,000-mile trip from Lorton, Va., to Sanford, Fla., which is a few miles from Walt Disney World. One-way fare is $190 for a car and two people, and $20 extra for each additional person. Passengers ride in reclining chairs in domed coaches, see up to two free movies and eat two free meals. The menu frequently...
Because the train is often booked well in advance, Garfield plans to add a second train on the Lorton-to-Sanford run. In addition, he is considering putting on a train from Cincinnati to Florida. With that, travelers from the Midwest can drive to Cincinnati and load themselves and their cars on a train, and avoid the high cost of renting a car during the peak seasons in Florida...
...scientists watching in Mission Control's "back room." Caltech's Gerald Wasserburg jumped up from his fourth-row seat and practically pressed his nose against the TV screen to see the coloring for himself. NASA'S Egyptian-born geologist Farouk El Baz, who had helped train the astronauts, beamed proudly. Even the space agency's cautious Australian-born Geochemist Robin Brett exulted: "We have witnessed one of the important finds in Apollo geology...