Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PEPSI-COLA'S UNICEF exhibit features an indoor boat ride through a wonderland of Disney dolls, representing children of every country and culture, all wildly singing and dancing to a mad little tune called It's a Small World. This particular ride is a must for all children, also charms many adults...
...Just as eyebrows were going up, three U.S. helicopters followed the paratroopers into Leopoldville, and the line was hastily changed. The helicopters would be flown by U.S. pilots on "rescue and logistical missions" for Tshombe's army, and the paratroopers would ride shotgun. But not, said a briefing officer in Leopoldville, as combat troops. Question: Might not their shotgun duties get them into combat situations? Answer: "I cannot comment on that kind of hypothetical question." Still later, another "official" line was that the helicopters would not be used to help Tshombe at all, and had been sent only...
...moment with the crowd of 30,000 who assembled in the cathedral (and wine) town of Orvieto, 75 miles north of Rome. The day after the encyclical was issued, the 66-year-old Paul dropped nonchalantly out of the sky for a visit-the first Pope ever to ride in a helicopter (or as Pope John called it, a helicopterum...
Indeed, industry has gone all out, and often far out, to pull in the public with such delights as Coca-Cola's instant world tour (from a street in Hong Kong to a cruise ship off Rio) and Pepsi's unforgettable boat ride through a Disneyland of wildly singing, dancing dolls...
...sheer size. French travel agents have learned to make a point of telling their clients that the U.S. is 171 times bigger than France, but still they are repeatedly disappointed to learn that a morning is not enough to visit the Grand Canyon from Denver or that a horseback ride across Arizona would be no fun at all. The insular English are forever making appointments for lunch in Boston to be followed by dinner in Phoenix and then wondering what all the rush is about...