Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering the papal newsmaker on the ground proved a bit more challenging; the Pope went by helicopter to all stops, while reporters had to follow by car. Wynn and Eastern Europe Correspondent Barry Kalb devised a system of "leapfrogging" the papal party. One would spend a day covering the Pope, while the other drove to the next destination and saw to all the complicated logistical and bureaucratic arrangements the trip required...
Leaving our cars home one day a week is like fighting a dinosaur with a BB gun. It is simply not the answer. Walking, running, bicycling, taking buses, subways and car pooling are all alternative ways to satisfy our need for mobility...
Riding in an open car the Pope rolled through city and town. Spires, lampposts, postmen's bicycles, railroad stations, pretty girls' balconies, all were ablaze with flowers, and the tails of innumerable papal banners, yellow and white, the colors of the Supreme Pontiff from distant Rome, fluttered against a blue...
...automobile, especially a Mercedes-Benz, has become the most prized "donation" of all. At the Peking headquarters of a trade corporation, it was not so subtly suggested to a Western businessman that he should donate two cars, one for his own use during occasional visits to China and one for the corporation. Members of another trade corporation told representatives of a U.S. company that a particular commodity purchase did not have to be paid entirely in cash; instead, if the Americans came across with a car, the vehicle's cost could be deducted from the contracted...
DIED. Kurt Jooss, 78, German choreographer renowned for highly dramatic, topical ballets, of which the most acclaimed was his 1932 pacifist masterpiece, The Green Table; of injuries suffered in a car accident; in Heilbronn, West Germany...