Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the civil rights acts passed in the early '60's, most Northern whites breathed a sigh of moral relief. Most of the tangible evidences of bigotry were gone: federal inspectors found few "Colored" drinking fountains left. The "White Only" posters were reluctantly removed from the train stations and busses; the black names made their way onto the voting lists; and whites and blacks settled down to the teeth-gritting reality of living together...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). The Train (1965). Burt Lancaster plays a French Resistance leader who tries to keep a trainload of art treasures from being shipped to Germany...
...addition, Chrysler hopes to save money by cutting its two-year or 24,000-mile general warranty to one year or 12,000 miles and restricting it to the original owner instead of the first two. The company will retain the five-year or 50,000-mile "power train" warranty, which it devised in 1963 to cover defects in such things as the engine, transmission and differential...
...located on a small street not far from what passes as a business district in Rockville Center, N.Y. A block or two away lies the local station of the Long Island Railroad where commuters come and go on their way to work in Manhattan. No one on an LIRR train ever sees the Sunset, for the trains move too fast for passengers to catch a glimpse of the small...
...past beckons like a man, and ritualistically, she riffles through the consolations and terrors of her childhood. Her only affection is for her forbidding Scottish father, who flashes by like something seen from a speeding train. He was an undertaker by profession, and so she also associates him with punishment and death. Sometimes her involuntary memory plunges into the future, and she wishfully imagines that she is cramming sleeping pills into her mother's mouth. It all smacks of paperback Freud-and so it could have been...