Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long Island Railroad. The question of rates and fares will be a vexing one, but its introduction into the present controversy is a little misleading. For the real issue here is not a possible fare-rise; New Yorkers would grumble and pay, if they got in return a comfortable ride and a better-ordered city. What is at stake in the Weinberg-Wagner donnybrook is the City's right to secure those two desiderata for its citizens, if necessary at a loss...
...Conduct "effects tests" to discover how well the Minuteman can ride out a nuclear attack in its "hardened," underground silo. Other tests will seek to determine how well the hulls of submarines-including the subs that carry the Polaris missile-will stand up to nuclear attack. Nuclear weapons will be detonated at high altitudes to check the effect on ground communications and radar. In previous tests, ionization caused by nuclear explosions wreaked havoc with electronics gear, raised the possibility that an enemy might try to knock out the electronic network of U.S. defenses by exploding warheads at high altitudes...
...Crimson Key's coming campaign to promote and improve its car-ride service will center around a large, wood-paneled map of the United States, a poster-publicity campaign, and coordination with nearby colleges. Cards filed in slots at key points on the map will show at a glance available ride offers to points throughout the country...
...Your Representative." The ceremonies at Canaveral were only the beginning for John Glenn. This week he would return to Washington for a more formal reunion with the President. He would ride in a gala parade and address a joint session of Congress. "Usually the honor is reserved for heads of state," Lyndon Johnson told him, "but in this case the whole country has elected you." After Washington there would come New York ?and what promised to be the biggest ticker-tape welcome in history. And after that, John Glenn may tour the free world for his country...
Every morning at Cambridge University, 3,401 budding scientists peer into electron microscopes or ponder the dynamics of rocket propulsion in air-conditioned labs that gleam with ultramodern glass and aluminum. Then, with medieval black gowns flapping, they ride off on rusty bicycles to another world: lunch with 3,751 arts undergraduates (never "students") fresh from reading Sophocles and Shakespeare in a library built by Christopher Wren. Soon scientists and classicists are sunk in shabby armchairs before gasping gas heaters, sipping sherry with their tutors. All around them is a happy blend of past and future: the green-lawned beauty...