Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRITISH MUSEUM IS FALLING DOWN, by David Lodge. This young British novelist's antic spirit needs leashing, but readers may enjoy the wild ride past several vulnerable institutions, among them the Roman Catholic Church and the airless world of scholarship...
...with his wife, Emma Ray Riggs McKay, 89. Rising as usual at 5 a.m. in his Salt Lake City apartment, McKay dictated letters and held his daily conference with the Mormon Counsellors, later joined his wife for a quiet party with their four sons and two daughters and a ride to the old stone house four blocks away, where the wedding reception had been held. "They're devoted to each other," said their son, Dr. Llewelyn McKay, "and it just seems to grow as the years pass...
Anyone who watched television during the past year must have seen a pretty but slightly misty-looking 5-ft. 4-in. blonde tumble out of a highflying airplane, crash a speedboat onto a beach at full throttle, ride a wagon hauled by galloping horses, plunge through an opening drawbridge, fall off a roof, and accidentally lean on a dynamite plunger. At the moment of greatest peril, the pixy hollered something like: "Stamp out cramped compacts!" or "Kick the dull driving habit!" or "Don't follow the leader. Drive it!" After which she miraculously escaped disaster-crying "Join the Dodge...
...whistle out of a twig and then plays a tweeting lullaby; in other numbers, Evelyne beats out a counter rhythm on the fiddle strings with spears of buffalo grass or "fiddlesticks." Many of the songs reflect the lore and rough-hewn poetry of rural America. My Las' Ride Comin' on the Heavenly Train is the lament of a luckless wanderer who Come from the far countree, in a railroad car, To this mizzable place 'hind the jailhouse bars...
...short train ride from London, in Britain's dreary industrial Midlands, the town of Kettering was long distinguished solely for its output of inexpensive shoes, produced by the millions at local factories. Now the town has won new honors. Using makeshift equipment, a physics teacher and a group of bright high school boys at Kettering Grammar School have discovered the location of a new and previously unannounced rocket-launching site in Russia...