Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning of Aug. 6, 1945, Dr. Fumio Shigeto was waiting in line for a trolley to take him to Hiroshima's Red Cross Hospital. A nurse he knew waved to him, inviting him to join her near the front of the queue. Not wanting to push ahead of the people in front of him, Shigeto declined the offer. At that moment there was a blinding flash, followed by a deafening boom. Most of the people in the line were hurled to the ground, burned and bleeding. Shigeto, who was sheltered by the corner of a reinforced-concrete building, survived...
...slight twice-breathed air here, as well as in "Nostasia in Asia," the five-part piece that concludes the collection. Some of the ground and most of the mock dudgeon are reminiscent of Westward Ha! (1948). That magnificent Middle Eastern curse, "May you live a thousand years and a trolley car grow in your stomach annually!" appeared at least once before in The Rising Gorge...
Last fall Grenoble started to extend its bus and trolley systems. Now it is testing a new kind of "people mover" -an aerial tramway akin to a ski lift that may be extended from the city center to the suburbs. The city is also giving downtown shoppers a break; cars have been banned on three streets which have become pedestrian malls. By 1980, Mayor Hubert Dubedout predicts, downtown will be served exclusively by public transport-a pedestrian's paradise, with no automobiles to be seen...
Unfortunately, Katmandu's new electric-trolley line, the first in South Asia, was not finished in time for the celebration. But colored lights were strung like necklaces across the trees and temples of the capital, and fountains were brilliantly illuminated. Western hippies, who for years have regarded Katmandu as a kind of real-life Shangrila, were banished for the occasion; stray dogs were poisoned...
...town of Little Snoreing toward such smoke-filled cities as High Yelling and Great Scolding only to learn that freedom isn't as much fun as it's cracked up to be. In the second, a pony-drawn fire engine and a faithful old fireman named Sam Trolley are briefly, agonizingly rendered obsolete by a scheming mayor and a big new fire engine-until, of course, they heroically put out a blaze that the big new fire engine has missed...