Word: riders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There Vaughn pushed hard for farm-credit banks and rural roads to open up the interior. Like an oldtime circuit rider, he traveled around the country telling peasants, students and politicians that "Panama's main natural resource is not geographical-not the canal. It is the people and the land. And they must be developed...
...Italy placed a 15% tax on all stock dividends, which two years later was raised to a 30% maximum. A rider to the original law that would have exempted the Vatican was specifically struck down. Nevertheless, the Vatican refused to pay the taxes-which might run upwards of $15 million a year-citing the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between Pope Pius XI and Mussolini. At that time, Italy agreed to pay the Pope $39 million in cash and $52 million in 5% government bonds as indemnity for losses suffered by the Pope when the Papal States were incorporated into Italy...
...three busses for demonstrators will leave at 10 p.m. tonight from Brandeis University. Larry Yurdin, SPU New England regional organizer, said the round trip will cost $14 per rider. About 60 Boston-area students are expected
...three weeks, Congress had been kicking around a Commodity Credit Corp. supplementary appropriations bill. The House added a rider banning $37 million in food shipments to Nasser's United Arab Republic; at Johnson's urgent request, the Senate voted to allow such shipments if the President found them "in the national interest" (TIME, Feb. 12); under heavy White House pressure, the House last week accepted the Senate version...
Shot from a Cannon. Compared with a bull rider, a matador is a preferred risk. At least he has a sword. All Wegner has is a rope-wrapped once around the bull's midsection and twice around his own left palm. Jolted into action by spurs or an electric cattle prod, goaded by a buck inducer (a rope tied around its tender parts), a maddened bull will rear, buck and spin-at the rate of two turns a second. To be a hero, all the cowboy has to do is to stay on the bull's back, gripping...