Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flash floods, of death by lightning (Florida is No. 1, with an average of ten a year) and death by psychopathic sniping. Chemical leaks and chemical spills were the hottest topics. But earthquakes were not neglected, nor tornadoes and hurricanes, famine, terrorism, high-rise fires and wildfires, plane crashes, train derailments and explosions of all kinds. Fretting about an epidemic? A nearby volcano about to blow? A poisoned water supply or a building collapse or a < riot? You ought to have been in In- dianapolis. Professor E.L. Quarantelli, director of the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center, has investigated...
...Gumbel broadcast the program live from Rome for a week in early April, then Gumbel traveled solo to Viet Nam to mark the tenth anniversary of the Communist takeover. In late May the Today stars and staff -- 47 people in all -- traveled 2,500 miles on a specially outfitted train through the American heartland, stopping off to beam the show live from Houston, New Orleans, Memphis, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. What might have been merely a promotional stunt turned into an enticing Baedeker of American urban life and the country's romance with the rails. The show did not simply dwell...
...days later, Ward picks up Reagan and drives him to the train station. "How'd the test go?" he asks. "I guess it went all right," answers Reagan, not all that sure. Ward cautions about getting hopes too high and packs Reagan off for Iowa...
...country the size of the Soviet Union (more than two times larger than the U.S.), letters frequently get lost in the mail. Sometimes even important documents disappear into the maw of a vast bureaucracy. But a whole train? Just so. In June 1983, according to an article last week in Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, a 28-car freight train loaded with crushed rock rolled out of the Tomashgorodsky Metal Factory in the Ukraine, bound for a construction site 350 miles away in the Russian republic. The train left, Pravda reported, "but it did not arrive...
...touch with its Belorussian equivalent. The reply there: check with Moscow. Finally, Polyak queried the central search section of the Rail Ministry itself. He was informed that "it was not possible to do anything" because the shipment documents had routinely been destroyed after a year. No matter that the train had left less than a year before. Said Pravda: "Even Sherlock Holmes from Baker Street in London could have lost his way in the paper labyrinth...