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Just before midnight, short bursts of gunfire did echo from nearby streets. It was not, however, the start of an assault but a confused scuffle between tanks and protesters around a trolleybus barricade. Three demonstrators were left dead -- the only casualties in Moscow of the coup...
...week before our arrival in Tambov, the drivers on two trolleybus lines had gone on strike, protesting the dreadful condition of the roads Tambovskaya Pravda, the local Communist Party daily, devoted the front page to a regional party committee meeting, examining the fate of those repressed under Stalin Elections had been held for a new factory director In the town of Michurinsk, 40 miles to the northwest, an ecology rally had been organized, drawing more than 1,000 people...
...time when New Hampshire primary voters were heading for the polls, a pleasantly round-faced woman economist named Zinaida Vladimirova Baturina waited for a trolleybus outside the Moscow office building where she works. It was 5 p.m. in the Soviet capital, and the orange glow of twilight hung in the western sky. Twenty minutes later Zinaida Vladimirova reached her destination, a neighborhood campaign office. She had promised to put in an evening's work as an agitator (local volunteer) in the windup of this week's election of 1,500 deputies to the Supreme Soviet. As she settled...
...flywheel's material. Had the Electrogyro's wheel been spun much faster centrifugal force would have ripped it apart. In the vehicles being equipped by Lockheed for San Francisco, the flywheels will be revved up to 12,000 r.p.m.-fast enough to drive a fully loaded trolleybus (80 passengers) for six miles. To keep such fast-moving machinery in one piece, say Lockheed engineers, they will use new high-strength steels originally developed for spacecraft and new designs that concentrate the mass of the wheel close to the center...
...Wanderer. In Wolverhampton, England, rush-hour shoppers laughed merrily at Samuel Morgan, shouting as he chased a crowded trolleybus down the main street-until they realized, after he had swung aboard, that he was the driver...
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