Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topflight Roman Catholic girls' school that emphasizes science and languages, including Russian and Chinese. New York City's Wagner College has a double feature: a hilltop rural campus on Staten Island with a sweeping view of passing ocean liners and easy access (by a 5? ferry ride past the Statue of Liberty) to the cultural riches of Manhattan...
...film tells the story of two sisters, one dark (Gunnel Lindblom) and one fair (Birgitta Pettersson), one serving Wotan and the other Christ, one sunk in nature and the other lost in light. The dark sister hates the fair sister, and one morning, when the two girls ride together through the forest to bring candles to the village church, the dark sister secretly opens the fair sister's bread and slips a toad inside. Then, in the depths of the forest, she turns back and lets her sister go on alone...
...curing the New Haven's steadily rising deficit (expected to hit $14.4 million this year), but some of its ingredients are bound to leave a bad taste in the mouth of everyone from New Haven President George Alpert to the extra engineer who goes along for a free ride on diesel runs...
...unless the New Haven protests (an unlikely possibility), the report urges "a larger and more direct Federal role" in the problems of urban mass transportation. As a first step, the report recommended that New Haven fares should be raised 20% to 30% to make the price of the ride "more commensurate with the cost," but it also insisted that the passenger should get more service for his money. Congress should be asked for legislation to enable all railroads to acquire new passenger equipment under more liberal terms. "We recognize that the public should not pay increased fares to continue...
Just after his 21st birthday Clark Gable joined a touring theatrical company called the Jewell Players, stayed with the group until it collapsed some months later in Butte, Mont. He had 26?. Hopping a freight, he took a gelid ride to the Pacific Northwest, piled logs, sold neckties, became a telephone repairman. One of the last phones he fixed was at the theater of the Red Lantern Players, where Josephine Dillon, then in her late thirties,, was the resident stage director. She taught him diction, projection and carriage, and married him when...