Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. In this story of a young man beginning his working life as a train dispatcher, Czech Director Jiff Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy, yet keeps the film squarely on the track...
...government has moved to remedy the situation. It has just set up a three-year crash program to train more people for service jobs, promised them more pay and a set of new titles of the kind previously reserved for tractor drivers and steel workers. Examples of some of them: "Master First Class" in plumbing or "Master Higher Class" in hotel management...
...lecture this month by Maslow at the First Unitarian Society Church in San Francisco, where Esalen has just started a branch program. Also intrigued by the institute is the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, which recently gave Esalen a $21,000 grant to train five public school teachers, who will then try some of its techniques in their home classrooms...
...another air-safety move, President Johnson requested $7,000,000 from Congress to hire and train 900 additional FAA air-traffic controllers to help sort increasingly heavy airplane traffic and prevent mid-air collisions. The President also asked Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd to draw up a long-term safety program, whose estimated $5 billion cost for "facilities, equipment and personnel" would be largely financed out of user charges...
...Snub from Labor. To do all that, one of the first places Wilson and Shore may have to show some muscle is in dealing with Britain's featherbedding unions. Southern Region Railway men, for example, are threatening a 24-hour strike this month because some train drivers have lost pay as unprofitable service has been curtailed. But handling such problems will be difficult. The powerful Trades Union Congress has gone so far as to snub the Prime Minister by not even asking him to address its annual meeting this week...