Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennsylvania, Vesper, and Harvard have been negotiating about the possibility of racing each other before all three head West early in July to train for the trials near Los Angeles. So far no firm date has been...
...written on Robert F. Kennedy's death are a monument to the insufficiency of words to capture very much of the horror of the event. There is something nearly obscene in our lust for facts--interviews with the Los Angeles ambulance driver or the engineer who drove the funeral train. And there is something both noble and terrifying in the passion of thousands of Americans to be part of the public mourning, shoving so hard to get near the funeral train are that two killed by an express speeding in the other direction...
Hundreds of guests, including President Pusey and the late Senator's long time Harvard supporters, moved toward Pennsylvania Station through silent crowds and boarded the train for the long ride to Washington...
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...small town along the tracks, Colonia, family held up a bedsheet with the words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...