Word: bicyclist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weird contraption with two wheels, a saddle and a steering tiller, propelled himself by pushing off with his legs and coasting. When he rode it into town, the citizens of Karlsruhe hooted and chased him off the streets. One hundred and fifty years later, the plight of the bicyclist is still dire. "People in pickup trucks throw beer cans at us," says Washington, D.C., Cyclist Ray Matthews Jr. "Motorists keep trying to push us off the road. We have to face continuous abuse and mistreatment...
Cure for the Rat Race. Even Lyndon Johnson has now declared himself the bicyclist's friend. Calling bike riders "the forgotten outdoorsmen of today," he said last March, "I see an America where our air is sweet to breathe and our rivers clean to swim in. I see an America where bicycle paths running through the hearts of our great cities provide wholesome, healthy recreation for entire families." Picking up his cue, the Interior Department now plans to build 10,000 miles of bike paths in national parks in the next decade...
...English-born Roland H. Bainton, 68, a Congregationalist minister and professor of church history, was once described as "part Puck, part St. Francis, with a mixture of Erasmus." A caricaturist who likes to whip off sketches of Reinhold Niebuhr or Paul Tillich, he is also an indefatigable bicyclist whose latest two-wheeler boasts 18 gears. Few other Yale divines have done so much to spread the word in human tones. In 42 years at Yale, Bainton published 19 books (total sales: 1,500,000), notably Church of Our Fathers and Here I Stand, probably the most readable biography of Martin...
Cambridge police reported yesterday that they do not know the identity of the bicyclist who ran into and injured Margaret E. deBoers '65 Thursday. Cambridge City Hospital reported her condition as fair yesterday afternoon...
...Radcliffe freshman was injured by a hit-and-run bicyclist yesterday morning in front of Lowell Lecture Hall...