Word: riders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airlines, which would like to attract more passengers in the offseason, attached one disappointing rider to the agreement: during the ten weeks of summer, when 65% of all U.S. tourist travel to Europe takes place, the economy fare will be cut only...
...desegregation order still holds, but older Montgomery Negroes have since reverted to a somewhat loose pattern of segregated seating, rarely, for example, will a white rider and a Negro sit beside each other...
...extraordinary complexity. She fights like a man, and swears and drinks like one too. Her love affairs are legion; yet in her ample bosom, religion burns with a white flame. She thrives on a noisy 15-hour workday. In Bolivia, she is called "half-breed"; in Paraguay, "burro rider"; in Haiti, "Madame Sarah." Everyone knows her as the market woman, the indispensable harridan of commerce who easily ranks as the No. 1 retailer to Latin America's lower classes...
...grandson of the late Tom Mix, was off to Hollywood. He has now finished playing a drifter in a forthcoming TV episode in hopes that his grandpap's talents were hereditary. At least some of them seem to be, because "Hick" is already a pretty fair rider and roper, used to do it for a living as foreman on his father's Laredo ranch. "Back home in Texas, I made $5 a day," he says. "But here I make $250." So he figures he'll try acting for a while. "If I don't make...
...group of early Dallas boosters (mostly ex-Confederate colonels from Tennessee bribed the Houston and Texas Central Railroad to come to Dallas. The Texas and Pacific building West, though, wouldn't be bought or persuaded. A crafty state legislator from Dallas tacked a rider onto the railroad's authorization bill that specified Browder Springs as a watering spot. Not knowing that Browder Springs was adjacent to Dallas, the Legislature made the bill law and, unwittingly, the Texas and Pacific came to Dallas...