Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged busboy accused of molesting a ten-year-old boy was set loose when the time limit ran out. In fact, since March more than 100 defendants in the county, including two accused of assault with intent to murder, have been freed. The public pressure that started the train of events has turned massively against the speedy-trial deadlines...
After just one ad (on Oct. 4) in selected Northeastern newspapers, the Auto-Train has been booked for all of December and part of January. Principal credit for the operation goes to its president, Attorney Eugene Garfield, 35, who was serving as assistant to Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd in 1969 when friends with some investment capital persuaded him to head up the project. Bankers refused the group additional money. As Garfield recalls: "The reaction we got was 'Who would start a railroad in the year 1969?' " But even as major cities like Dallas were losing rail passenger service...
...that trip will no longer be necessary, thanks to the new Auto-Train. Modeled on the excellent auto-bearing passenger trains of Europe and Canada, the Auto-Train will begin running daily from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Va., to Sanford, Fla., on Dec. 6. The train will carry 90 to 104 vehicles in several enclosed carrier cars for a flat fee of $190 per car and group of four passengers. It will leave the new Alexandria station at 8 p.m., stop only for brief crew changes, and arrive at 11 o'clock the following morning in Sanford...
Breakfast in Bed. Besides its obvious convenience, Auto-Train promises to be, well, almost half the fun. In an age when rail passengers count themselves lucky if they can get stale sandwiches and warm soft drinks, the Auto-Train will seem like Queen Elizabeth 2 on wheels. For adults, there will be cocktails and complimentary hors d'oeuvres in each of the 13 full-dome coaches. The kids will be entertained with cartoons and a G-rated movie. At 9 p.m., a sitdown buffet will be served (Beef Wellington or lobster), followed by another movie for the grownups...
...rest of the songs are all pretty usual country-rock and are all well-done, especially "Portland Woman" and "Glendale Train." If the album has one general failing, it is that the songs are not consistently top caliber, and tend to fall into types. This, however, seems an inevitable function of country sound influence...