Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the play is the fitful dream of Tom, a youth returning from a visit with his gandfather. On the train ride home the grandfather reviews his life, realizing that he is "trapped inside myself." Almost horribly his memories are "forever and never [to] be anything else, they could not change, they were--what?--ugliness...
...House so that the Administration's once-beaten pay-raise bill could pass; he told a dead-broke Kentuckian on the porch of his shack to "take care of yourself, now"; and he quietly asked New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating during a plane ride to New York if he would please pray...
...national television-right now. He all but ran out of the White House, jumped into a limousine that shot out of the driveway so fast that it sped right past its waiting escort of four motorcycle cops. The policemen caught up, led a wild 50-m.p.h. ride to the Columbia Broadcasting System studios four miles away. During the trip one befuddled officer shouted to another, "Where are we going...
...first and foremost, they are expected to enjoy themselves. This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head off, and shoot 31 minutes of rapids in a hollow...
...rattled toward Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., that day in 1946, Britain's wartime Prime Minister and the President of the U.S. indulged in a little poker. The U.S. got taken to the cleaners, as Harry Truman, 80 next week, recalled the incident. Truman marveled that during the ride Winston Churchill, now 89, had also managed to work on "one of the finest speeches ever made in the world." To honor the author of the famed "Iron Curtain" speech, Truman was again at Westminster last week for the groundbreaking of a Churchill Memorial project that will transplant a bombed...