Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parking. Thailand now has few er than 10,000 registered working elephants v. some 150,000 automobiles. Says one old-school Thai: "Oh, yes, rich men still use elephants, but only when they go into the forest to work. Where friends can see them, they ride automobiles instead...
...While the used-elephant market has been seriously depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting...
...procession began the 1.8-mile route to the White House. Immediately behind the caisson came a caparisoned, riderless horse. A sword in its scabbard hung from the black saddle, a pair of gleaming boots were reversed in the stirrups-a sign that a commander had fallen and would never ride again. Black Jack, a 16-year-old dark chestnut gelding, is the pride of Fort Myer's stable of 27 ceremonial horses, and has performed in dozens of military funerals over the past ten years. Now the animal was skittish, prancing sideways and endlessly tugging...
...night of Thursday, Nov. 21, Oswald stayed at the Paine house in Irving-a departure from his routine of weekend visits. He went to bed early. Next morning the Dallas Morning News published a map showing the route of the presidential motorcade. On the same morning, Oswald got a ride to work with a neighbor, Wesley Frazier. Oswald was carrying a long package, wrapped in brown paper, told Frazier that it contained window shades...
...willing to chase potential customers right into space. It is developing a collapsible space station that will inflate in orbit, and a giant "moon tire" that can roll lightly along without sinking into the deep layers of moon dust. The first man on the moon may go for a ride on Goodyear tires...