Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farthest along are 78 Colombia-bound volunteers (all men) at New Jersey's Rutgers University. Sponsored by CARE, they have spent six 60-hour weeks studying Spanish, U.S. and Latin American culture, how to play soccer and how to ride a horse. Next month they shove off for two years of digging wells, building roads and schools in remote mountain villages...
Such performances were still the exception rather than the rule. But they suggest that for astute managements that ride expenses hard, modernize in the right places, and move quickly into new markets, prosperity can be profitable even in the cost-ridden...
Despite this, the Federal Government, with enthusiastic assistance from state and local governments, continues to ride the railroads as though they still possessed their igth century monopoly. In the urban East, where Government insistence on the continuance of money-losing passenger and commuter runs hurts the most, the 40 major roads actually rolled $110 million in the red in the first half of 1961. Overall, the 107 Class One U.S. railroads last year earned barely 2% on invested capital-less than during Depression years. The hapless New York, New Haven & Hartford is already in bankruptcy. And President Alfred Perlman...
...Riding Shotgun. The U.S. State Department asked the Swiss embassy in Havana to protest Castro's refusal to release the big plane, but got no answer. The FBI charged the out-of-reach Oquendo with four offenses, including kidnaping-punishable by life imprisonment. New York police revealed a Cuban plot to hijack five more planes. Detectives studied passenger lists at air terminals, kept a sharp eye on boarding Latin Americans. Kentucky's Representative Frank Chelf introduced a bill to permit civilian crews to "ride shotgun" in airliner cockpits equipped with one-way glass to observe passengers. FAA Administrator...
...drops into an aquamarine world of luminous blues and greens. There is no more story line than the splash of frogs at play. Suddenly, two herons goose-step into the pond. But the lily pads, like huge oriental fans, hide the frogs from their enemies. Frolicking again, the frogs ride a turtle like a raft. Time for a supper snack of algae and dragonfly eggs, and the frogs' perfect day is done. Mrs. Kepes draws the way jazz sounds, and her book is an improvised underwater lyric...