Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier this year, and a briefing session with U.S. Ambassador to France Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Germany George McGhee, and the Permanent U.S. Representative to NATO, Ambassador Harlan Cleveland. The group then boarded the TIME-chartered Pan Am 727 for the flight to Vienna and the bus ride to Budapest, the only overland part of the trip...
From Camp Stanley, the President helicoptered to an agricultural demonstration area south of Seoul. He viewed the painstakingly cultivated land, tried on a flowing blue-and-white Korean farmer's robe and stovepipe hat, then invited Village Elder Si Jong Choe, 65, for a helicopter ride. After 10 minutes aloft, Choe exclaimed: "It's like going to heaven...
...talk, Johnson was mobbed by well-wishers. It took his car 22 minutes, despite the best efforts of police and Secret Service, to move four blocks. How do I know? Because I was sitting happily with the President in his car. We had a fine ride to the airport and a good laugh at his mispronunciation of my name. He mispronounced it regularly when we were together in Congress, and he heads a long list of distinguished persons who have tripped between...
...Illinois Central Railroad is testing a Litton computer that handles commuter ticketing. After a clerk punches in the passenger's monthly schedule, the machine calculates the price and issues a magnetic card. On each trip, the commuter slips the card into a turnstile receiver that automatically subtracts one ride from the total and flashes the number of rides remaining, then opens the gate. In a few years, clerks will be eliminated; the commuter will punch his own order on a console and pay the machine...
Other incidents Brown relates--meetings with an African game hunter who milks cobras for a living and a cabdriver who insists the boards have to ride in the trunk--are genuinely amusing and sustain the film...