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...fiddle strings with spears of buffalo grass or "fiddlesticks." Many of the songs reflect the lore and rough-hewn poetry of rural America. My Las' Ride Comin' on the Heavenly Train is the lament of a luckless wanderer who Come from the far countree, in a railroad car, To this mizzable place 'hind the jailhouse bars...
There they stood, ranging on up to 6½ ft. tall, bulging with the kind of muscles it takes to bend a railroad spike between thumb and forefinger. Their team had already won its fifth National Football League division championship in seven years, and chances were, they could hardly have cared less that they still had one regular-season game to play against the Los Angeles Rams. So why were they doing pushups, and running wind sprints? Could it really have been because a chubby pipsqueak with glasses was screaming at them: "You don't have any pride...
...pilots, the missions were as routine as any ever are in the face of North Viet Nam's formidable air-defense system. The targets: the Yen Vien railroad center northeast of the capital, and Van Dien, a major vehicle-repair depot known in Pentagon parlance as the "secondhand-car lot," with a capacity of some 500 trucks. Both had been hit for the first time on Dec. 2; and both were worth a second try, particularly Yen Vien, the country's largest rail choke point, handling one-third of the nation's military traffic...
Died. Brigadier General Lacey Van Buren Murrow, 62, Air Force flyer and eldest brother of the late Edward R. Murrow, a troop-carrier specialist in World War II and Korea, who retired in 1953 to a variety of highway-and railroad-consultant jobs; by his own hand (shotgun); in Baltimore...
Progenitor of the aerotrain is 49-year-old Engineer-Designer Jean Berlin, who in August 1965, after eight years at the drawing board, received a $600,000 grant from France to build and test his invention on a 31-mile stretch of unused railroad track between the villages of Gometz and Limours. Bertin, who already had the backing of a $1,000,000 company made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped...