Word: riding
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Flown to Tinian on Aug. 5, 1945, to ride over Hiroshima with the crew of the Enola Gay, Laurence was bumped off the plane by Curtis LeMay, had to console himself by talking the copilot into keeping a log. Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...
...Representative Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. is across the street in the old Robert Todd Lincoln house. Republican Senator Kenneth B. Keating of New York is around the corner. The purchase gives Jackie three homes, the others being a house at Hyannis Port and the new, ranch-style home in the ride-to-hounds country around Atoka, Va. On a visit to Atoka last weekend with the children, Jackie formally christened that house Wexford, after the Kennedy ancestral seat in Ireland...
...Truman, 79, had some hard words to say about one another, and ever since, relations between them have been cool. But when the two ex-Presidents met in Washington for John F. Kennedy's funeral, old angers did not seem to matter so much. Eisenhower invited H.S.T. to ride with him to Ar lington, and after the burial Harry had Ike and Mamie in to Blair House for coffee and sandwiches. Quietly the two men talked of the problems and perils of the presidency. After half an hour, they parted and an aide recalled: "You could see the warmth...
...replica of the real thing, complete with dirty windows and a scurfy litter of candy wrappers on the floor. It had been built from plans furnished by the New York Transit Authority, and set up in a Brooklyn studio for a Du Pont Show of the Week play called "Ride with Terror," by Nicholas Baehr...
...Crimson Key Society is looking for students with cars to take advantage of its University ride service. Numerous people needing Christmas rides have registered in the Key office. Students seeking riders should call the office between 2 and 5 p.m. on weekdays...