Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLOUDS (Community). This is the first recording by the Manhattan hippie tribe that has been turning on with sound and light in a couple of off-Broadway ballrooms; it will soon open its own permanent ballroom in the East Village. The five-man band has a driving, express-train beat, and a sharp and shimmering harmony, and a high voltage singer named Sheila. Their sound is all their own, but there are some familiar touches of The Lovin' Spoonful (Grew Up All Wrong) and Jefferson Airplane (Banana Split). In Banana Split, two electronic zaps project the listener, as through...
Next morning, when the country's leaders took a train to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, another crowd of 10,000 broke police lines, scattered the band and the honor guard, and mobbed the railway station, shouting: "Long live Dubcek!" "Long live Svoboda...
Mobs of screaming students last week swarmed through the vast Shinjuku rail way station, Tokyo's largest. Wearing plastic helmets, the lower half of their faces masked with towels as a protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...
...railway employees raced to put out the fires, riot police assembled in the darkness down the tracks and charged. They were met but not stopped by a shower of rocks. The sound of staves flailing against police shields and batons banging on plastic helmets echoed through the train shed. Bodies rolled in hand-to-hand combat. The battered and bleeding were carted off by rescue squads of both sides...
...great depth of this year's team has enabled McLoone to train at his own pace, instead of being forced to enter dual meets before his injuries are completely healed, as was the case last year...