Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leonards, which sprawls over four city blocks, sells items ranging from barn siding to $1.99 ''Ivy League Pants." Several years ago, the Leonards bought a big parking lot for 5,000 cars on the bank of the Trinity River and began experimenting with free bus rides from it to the store. The buses lured customers back, but provided a slow and hot ride. Obediah thought of a subway. The Leonards acquired five old Washington, D.C., streetcars, spiffed them up with stainless steel and new seats, installed air conditioning, and carved a double-track tunnel between store...
...skating rinks, bowling alleys and on ski slopes made of plastic, Japanese will soon be able to play at one of Japan's most modern resorts, the San-ai Hotel on Hokkaido Island, just an hour's plane ride from Tokyo. Work on the resort began last week when slim and tireless Kiyoshi Ichimura, 62, got permission from his backers to go ahead with the ambitious project. Already one of Japan's fastest rising businessmen, whose nine companies sold $61 million worth of goods last year, Ichimura believes that "to stand still is to lose ground...
...official, because "it's rather poor taste" to say something like "Please check to see you haven't forgotten your grandmother.'' But nobody expected the campaign to do much good. While forgetfulness is much to blame, so is overcrowding. Every day, 36 million Japanese ride the trains, 4,200,000 in Tokyo alone. At rush hours, 350 commuters jam into cars designed for 100, helped by brawny students who are paid 150 yen (42?) an hour to stand on the platform and shoehorn people inside. When the doors open, the scrimmage begins; cracked ribs...
...GENERAL MOTORS' FUTURAMA, designed by Albert Kahn Associates, has a façade looming over the entrance like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney...
...just habit. I might even, some day, become Ralph Bunche or, in forty years, Bobby Kennedy. But then, I'll still be nigger to the man on the train. Yes, it's funny, pathetically funny on Commencement night, after the exercises, when I climb back onto the MTA and ride back into the ghetto, I'll still be nigger to the man across the aisle. And the liberals still won't understand. They'll still be submerged in their "Negro problem," not realizing that the habit of seeing me--saying Negro--and hearing, way down deep, NIGGER--instead of hearing...