Word: riding
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Jackie Kennedy, a faint smile playing about her lips, announces that, in gratitude to the French people, "we're going to send them one of our own masterpieces," the "Sleigh Ride" by Grandma Moses. "Sleigh" travels to Europe in the Captain's Cabin of the S.S. United States, surrounded by a cordon of 500 Marines. President de Gaulle expresses frigid thanks, says he would have preferred one ICBM. The French people flock to see "Sleigh"; they think Grandma Moses looks like Mrs. Kennedy...
...improvement of existing railroad rights-of-way that would provide line-haul running speeds of 100-150 m.p.h.; new railroad rights-of-way or "tubes" to provide speeds of perhaps 200 m.p.h.; electronically controlled auto or bus highway systems; "ground and surface effects machines'"-that is, vehicles that ride on a cushion of air over land or water; improvement of helicopter services and development of VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off-and-landing craft"); and improvement of high-speed hydrofoil boats...
...Hearing about the horses, and feeling an urge to expand the Kennedy menagerie (present occupants: four dogs, 20 rabbits, one guinea pig, one donkey), Ethel shot off an order to Argentine Breeder Julio Falabella. who claims that his herd of 350 is unique. Sturdy enough to saddle up and ride, the midget horses have other endearing qualities that may make Cousin Caroline's pony, Macaroni, lose a length in Kennedy affections. Says Falabella: "They eat practically nothing-far less than sheep-and can be completely housebroken. The mares are always getting pregnant; in fact they are disgustingly happy...
Skybolt is a 40-ft.. two-stage, solid-fuel weapon designed to ride under a bomber's wing, then streak off on its own with a nuclear warhead aimed at targets up to 1,000 miles away. So far, the U.S. has spent or committed $657 million to develop Skybolt for use with the Strategic Air Command's B-52 bomber. And Britain has spent $25 million to adapt its otherwise obsolescent Vulcan II bomber to Skybolt...
...judicial test on the constitutionality of the ban on soon. Unhappily, the first such test will probably involve the students who leave for Cuba Sunday on the free ride being offered by the Cuban Federation of University Students and the "Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba." There must be a test case--but it would be hard to imagine a worse one. The leader of the Ad Hoc Committee is a frank communist sympathizer, and because of the very nature of the junket, most of those who will accompany him will probably be communist sympathizers...