Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europe, South Asia and North Africa. First stop, for refueling: Goose Bay, Labrador. Second stop: Rome. Before he completes the circuit and touches home again, he will travel for 19 days through 19,600 miles by plane, 270 by helicopter, 1,500 by ship, 1,000 by train and car on the longest overseas trip ever made by a U.S. President in office...
Before looking too far ahead to New Haven, the team needs to prepare for Navy and Dartmouth. As Coach Bill Brooks told his swimmers, he does not want them to "think of Yale until riding through New Haven on the train coming from Annapolis...
...Hill. Colby dreamed of moving to a comelier, 650-acre site on Mayflower Hill, outside Waterville. Beginning in 1933, square-jawed President Franklin W. Johnson hunted the money ceaselessly. One man sent $20,000 just because he pitied Colby as he passed by on the train. But World War II canceled construction and dashed the dream. When Bixler arrived, Mayflower Hill had only three completed buildings and five shells. Old Colby (enrollment: 651) still squatted on the wrong side of the tracks...
...first artist to attempt an all-out embrace of the world of electrical, chemical and neon fires. With painters everywhere attempting to reestablish contact, however ephemeral, with nature, Florsheim points out that man-made lights are also part of nature. The nighttime view from an airplane or a train can take one's breath away, and add new dimensions to the ordinary conception of what is beautiful...
...firemen, who have little or nothing to do in modern diesels. The roads argue that taking some 23,000 firemen off freight runs and yards alone would save them $200 million a year. They also want to change the mileage pay rates set 40 years ago when trains traveled at turtle speed. Under the obsolete rules, a train crew gets a full day's pay for every 100 miles traveled, and conductors and trainmen on passenger trains for every 150 miles-even though the actual traveling time sometimes takes less than two hours. Under the same set of rules...