Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, the problem is one of technology. City lines are meaningless when a commuter, on his everyday ride to work, passes through a dozen corporate boundaries from home to office. Neither are there limits to the problems technology has created; traffic jams and noise, air and water pollution do not stop at the city line. In part, the problem is one of insensitive institutions. A city welfare department may have been well equipped to han dle the demands of a quarter-century ago, but almost all are handicapped by today's huge caseloads...
...spare time and a bit against his better judgment. At thirty-nine he can't quite decide what to make of himself. He dresses like a careless football coach and lives in a palace of oiled woods and lush fabrics; his mostly Hungarian sheep dog refuses to ride in the 1961 Studebaker he drives and Heimert refuses to trade the car in for anything but a Mercedes 300SL. He is Professor Heimert, Master of Eliot House Heimert, the Undergraduates' Advocate Heimert--a creature of the university, but not wholly or solely professor, administrator or student...
...simple scheduled plans were too good to believe. Humphrey was to arrive in Hartford after midnight, catch some sleep, and next morning chat with suburban housewives in nearby Bloomfield. Then he was to fly in his Boeing 727 to Stratford for a speech at the Avco Lycoming plant, ride in an hour-long motorcade to Waterbury for a rally on the green, and finally return to Stratford for a flight to New York. Murphy had seven days to make that plan a reality...
...days he tried to hitch a plane ride to the Biafran battle zone. Finally, he talked himself onto a decrepit DC-4 that took him to Port Harcourt. Along with CBS correspondent Morley Safer and 20 federal troops, Priya went looking for action. On a road outside Owerri, Biafran soldiers opened up from ambush, and Priya was hit in the arm and back. Safer and some of the Nigerian troopers carried him to an aid station, but he died an hour later...
...gone," Pantoja said. "We couldn't breathe. I fainted." Others managed to pierce two small holes in the roof, but there was still not nearly enough air for 47 men. Leonel Zavila, 18, told of banging vainly on the window behind the driver's seat during the ride. "How can people be so inhuman...