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...Yule, general chairman of the United Transportation Union which represents conductors and trainmen on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Commuter Rail Road, said his workers intend to obey the law. But he said he has asked the railroads to have any pickets removed...
...need to give something of healing andrestorative value back to Harvard is echoed inPresident Roosevelt's address, which reminded anaudience all too familiar with the militaristictone of modern times that "Harvard should trainmen to be citizens in that high Athenian sensewhich compels a man to live his life uneasinglyaware that its civic significance is it mostabiding, and that the rich individual diversity ofthe state is born only of the wisdom to chooseways to achieve which do not hurt one'sneighbors...
...stonemason, is striking. Baker says for that reason he was unable to read Look Homeward, Angel until he was 45. "I heard those train whistles in the night, and they spoke of something else to me than the wonder of America." What they spoke of, he says, was trainmen out of work as the Depression deepened...
...somber brick Festspielhaus, which Wagner himself designed, and they brought on a storm of booing deep and raw. A few people both booed and clapped at once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid evening clothes. Some of the crowd had brought old-fashioned trainmen's whistles, shrill enough to make a hound bay. Nonetheless, Chéreau came out to take curtain calls, wearing blue jeans, a shiny mod belt and a patient smile. Said he later: "I was very amused at the booing...
Machel ordered his country's porous, 800-mile border with Rhodesia closed and declared that he would begin "fully implementing" the United Nations-imposed international sanctions against Rhodesia. His government detained 18 Rhodesian trainmen caught inside Mozambique's borders and seized a considerable amount of Rhodesian rolling stock as well as tons of tobacco, copper, chrome and asbestos awaiting shipment at Mozambican ports...