Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give up our trip to the moon and build some hospitals? Give up our voyage to Mars and buy some beds and equipment. Let's leave Saturn alone for awhile and train more nurses. Let's have more doctors, more schools, more colleges, more teachers. Why not take care of us here on earth first and then investigate whether the Martians like vanilla or chocolate ice cream...
...overly optimistic. Little in the research filed by TIME reporters across the country indicated that complaining commuters were in for much immediate relief. In fact, Washington Correspondent Juan Cameron, who interviewed Stuart Saunders, discovered that the busy boss of the country's biggest railroad seldom rides by train himself. He prefers autos or planes, and Cameron suspects he knows the reason. He took a trip in one of the Pennsy's private "company" coaches, and reports that it was spartan, overheated, and far from the sybaritic comforts of the days of the rail barons...
Freight pays more than passengers these days, and freight handling is the railroads' biggest business - a subject on which Davidson is a home expert. His family playroom in Manhasset, L.I., is monopolized by a vast and ever-expanding model-train layout, on which he and his children vie for time at the controls. "We have all freight cars - no passenger cars," he says proudly. "It's a very modern railroad...
...trip had all the mystery of a ride on the old Orient Express. While a raging blizzard shut down the airports of Eastern Europe, the three top men of Russia sped by train from Moscow across the white wastes to the Masu rian Lake district of Poland 600 miles away. There, in a hunting lodge, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny huddled with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued...
...selection committee for the world team apparently believed that Allen deserved a chance to compete in the world competition, where he finished fifth last year. He will train strenuously at Lake Placid. N.Y. until leaving for the world tournament training camp at Villar, Switzerland, next month...